A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

This grand Spanish-Cuban restaurant has been serving customers for more than a century.

"Bite or Smite" became the unlikely mascot of a Tampa suburb.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A tiny, unassuming park in Tampa that belongs to the Republic of Cuba.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Nuclear waste dump site now an environmental sanctuary.

The largest Star Wars collection in the world is its own galaxy of collectibles.

Guns that have been defending San Francisco since 1904.

This infamous prison has a store where you can buy goods crafted by incarcerated people.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

Big gun installations, built over a massive cemetery, now abandoned & hidden in trees.

A modest reminder of treacherous waters at the Golden Gate.

A sculpture dedicated to Napa Valley's oldest mineral water company.

Napa's oldest building is now a Mexican restaurant.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

Centuries of biking history are nestled in the shadow of the birthplace of contemporary mountain biking.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

Of all the origin stories for weed's secret code, this one likely has the goods.

At night, a grove of towering redwood trees growing through the pavement block out all light from the so-called “Dark Park” of Madrone Avenue.