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Tucked away near Gainesville, Lubee Bat Conservancy invites visitors to discover the surprising personalities of giant fruit bats while learning how protecting these misunderstood animals helps preserve forests around the world.

A magical work of architecture where a wind turbine enables monks to levitate.

This edgy museum will whet your appetite for the industrial history of Western New York.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.

This former lieutenant governor's home is brimming with curiosities.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.