Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions, just west of Orlando.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

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

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

The world's 2nd or 3rd or 4th busiest seaplane base.

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

The world's largest private aircraft collection.

VW heaven in the backwoods of Dade City, now gone.

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

In Florida, these naughty monkeys live on their own mini-monkey Alcatraz.

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

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

The history of the traveling carnival is remembered by this sprawling collection of vintage wagons, games, and rides.

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

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

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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.