The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

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

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

A small poultry graveyard in the courtyard of a popular Key West watering hole.

This kitschy curio wonderland is full of fake animals, teak tables, and a cacophony of random bric-a-brac.

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

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

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

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

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

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

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

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

Visit these gentle, bell-bottomed, exquisite equines at the home of North America's first Gypsy Vanner horses.

The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

The snowbirds here are circus sideshow performers.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

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

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.