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

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

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

Step back into the glory days of Florida's nascent tourism industry at this Gilded Age palace.

A seemingly inexplicable memorial honors a beloved Tampa fruit-seller.

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

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.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

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

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

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

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Berliners converted a bombed-out, disused lot into a community-run urban farm with its own cafe and bar.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Where once there was a train station bathroom, there is now this German burger joint.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.