It's believed Elvis Presley was inspired to write his breakthrough track after staying here.

A tribute to a future time when gravity is conquered.

This Florida museum dedicated to western artwork is entered through an artificial canyon with imported sandstone.

Working compound meant to allow visitors to reclaim the values and traditions of the past.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

This historic crypt was said to have been designed and built by the very person who is buried inside of it.

Home to a giant switchblade and one of the world's largest collections of pocket knives, this museum is a cut above the rest.

The largest freshwater lake in the Florida Keys.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

The site of a gold-digging conquistador's bloody landing in the Americas.

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

Wading through a small lagoon reveals a secret, wild stretch of pristine beach.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

One of the largest Native American shell middens stands 30 feet tall.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.