Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

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

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

Step into the past and experience what life was once like in the Sunshine State.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A lone gunner's station is all that remains of a replica Spanish Fort in Florida.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

These simple structures are living monuments to the fishermen who built this community over a century ago.

This massive vault of comedic history is no joke.

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

Every January 6, young men dive into Spring Bayou in search of a cross and a year's worth of maritime blessings.

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

Florida’s first home built with eco-friendly hempcrete.

No one knows how or why this painting appeared to produce crystallized tears.

Recycled junk and fishing buoys litter the yard and facade of this bait shop cum art project.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

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

A gleaming white tower in ornate Indian style soars above the low-slung bungalows of north Tampa.

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

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