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

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

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

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

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

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

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

An abandoned water sports stadium that has become a haven for graffiti and decay.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.