This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

One man's grief over the national tragedy has manifested in a pod of homemade whales on his front lawn.

With nickel-steel armor and three-inch thick bullet resistant windows, FDR's train was a rolling fortress.

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

The birthplace of American international flight service has been turned into a celebrity's microbrewery.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

Visitors are welcome to enter this lush Key West sanctuary to entertain its plethora of rescued parrots.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

This picturesque ghost town is located on the banks of the Suwannee River.

This ancient sinkhole-turned-healing-pool is a treasure trove of archeological discoveries and may even be the Fountain of Youth.

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

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

An abandoned factory along the Mississippi coated by a giant mural.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.