A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

Giant fruit signaling the entrance to a tropical paradise.

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

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

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.

A tiny twin to Seattle's Fremont troll hides from the Florida sun under the Atlantic Boulevard drawbridge.

The sign that drew attention to a young boy's cucumber stand is now the name of his fruit superstore.

The strip club's VIP lounge is actually a rare repurposed Futuro House.

This video store is a horror buff's dream.

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

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

The futuristic test model of an iconoclastic visionary who wanted to redesign the world.

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

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

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

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

Island ghost town detailing Flagler's folly in building the Overseas Railroad.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

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

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

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