Brick walkways weave through more than 500 palms and cycads, representing 150 species from around the world.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

These craggy limestone outcrops offer a glimpse at a unique piece of Florida geology.

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

Ruins of an old sugar mill sitting quietly next to a park in rural Florida.

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

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.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

An abandoned Victorian house transformed into a museum and store filled with taxidermy and vintage goods.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

A dazzling display of lights and crystals.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

Wander the locker-lined, terrazzo-floored halls and sleep in a former classroom at this unique inn.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.