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.

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

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

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

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

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

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

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

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

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

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

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

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

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

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