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

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

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

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

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

The culprit who accidentally lit this 3,500-year-old tree on fire stated "I can't believe I burned down a tree older than Jesus."

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

The so-called "world's shortest river" is actually a window into a cave.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

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

A swamp that was the site of prehistoric water burials also managed to preserve its corpses for millennia.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

The world's largest occupied bat houses hold hundreds of thousands of flying mammals.

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

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

Hundreds of skulls and bones at the largest skeleton museum in the country.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.