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

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

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

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

Electrical pylon in the shape of Disney's beloved mouse.

This stretch of highway is said to be haunted by ghosts of settlers whose graves were paved over.

Mariners once used this prehistoric landfill as a navigational landmark.

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

Remarkably realistic Florida shoal bass "swim" inside this large globoid sculpture.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

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

Meet manatees face-to-face at this zoo for native species.

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

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.