Nearly 200 prehistoric giants lurk among the trees at this theme park.

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

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

One of the oldest restaurants in Orlando is a no-frills seafood shack still shucking fresh oysters by the bucket.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

An Orlando museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of work by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

An unassuming corner inside downtown Orlando's library offers a whole new world of the park and its history.

The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

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

This former factory has been transformed into a technicolor wonderland, where dozens of local artists have collaborated to create a real choose-your-own-adventure experience.

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

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

Where one of Greenpoint's "five black arts" was practiced.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.

Those belting out show tunes might not realize this piano bar marks the site where Thomas Paine died in 1809.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This subterranean oyster house has been the pearl of Grand Central Station since 1913.

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

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.