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

An octet of classic chrome trailers speared into the ground act as a tribute to the silver bullets of the open road.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

A failed, un-built suburb that has been going feral for decades.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

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

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

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

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

A time capsule of Floridian history fights to survive on the banks of Chokoloskee Bay.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

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

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.