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

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A creative deviation in this post office's design was once a source of controversy.

The story of a Floridian city as told through an obscure sport for retirees.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

The only known working replica of the world's first self-propelled vehicle.

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.

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

A memorial to legendary newsman, publisher, and owner of La Gaceta, the only trilingual newspaper in the U.S.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.

Come for the giant taxidermy lion, stay for the knick knacks at this Minneapolis curiosity shop.

From burial ground bocce ball court.