What started as a tailor shop to help swimmers live their mermaid dreams has grown into a full-scale aquarium, complete with live mermaid shows.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

The first atheist monument on public land in the United States.

If you don't look closely, you might mistake this sculpture for just another passenger waiting at the airport.

This hauntingly beautiful stretch of Florida coastline is covered in sun-bleached trees.

Opened in 1976, this monster-sized version of the fast-food franchise is sometimes called the Epic McD.

If you ever wanted to own an actual piece of Disney World, this is the place to shop.

Built to replace a house destroyed by a hurricane, this home is made entirely of shipping containers.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

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

The unique collection includes bronze cast handprints of some of America's most famous astronauts.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

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.

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

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

Hidden in the plaza next to a pizza shop is an amazing little oddities shop.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

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

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Where manatees are the snowbird vacationers in these balmy Florida springs.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.