Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

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

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

This glass-stain Mary attracted thousands of pilgrims until her head was shattered by a vandal with a slingshot.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

This beautiful train graveyard is one of the largest collections of steam locomotives in the Mediterranean and Europe.

One Costa Rican island is so beset by illegal shark poachers that the local rangers have built an entire bridge with their confiscated gear .

Pasadena glamour turned government issue.

A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

Former island in the Aral Sea used to be a top-secret Russian bio-weapons facility.