Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

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

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

America's only city hall with minarets took architectural cues from Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves.

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

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Ruined pieces of stone and a swimming pool are all that remain of an amusement park swept away by a flood.

A late sculptor's last project was to turn this abandoned cement factory into a castle-themed amusement park.

A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.

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

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

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

One of many gator theme parks, abandoned in the sugar fields of South Florida.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.