A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

Intertwined, interspecies trees which locals believe can grant boons to lovers.