This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

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

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

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

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

An underwater city for the dead.

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

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

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

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

Roaming bison and a spectacular view at the highest point in Nebraska.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

A whimsical monument marks the highest point in Kansas, not that you could tell by the looks of it.

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The highest point in Arizona is an oddly snow-topped peak within the otherwise arid state.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Rumor has it the uncarved lump behind the three famous suffragists is reserved for the first woman president.

This Danish castle is supposedly haunted by a woman too independent to not be a witch.

The oldest inn in Kilkenny was established by the first convicted witch in Ireland.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.