This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

The capital of the Cayman Islands is a center of offshore banking, but gets battered by blistering hurricanes.

Send a postcard while vacationing with Satan.

Used as a military post in three different engagements, this fort has remained incomplete and unfired upon for nearly 200 years.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

Location of a reliquary containing bone fragments of 18 saints.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

This shrine commemorates the site of the first known Catholic mass in the United States.

One of the oldest, tallest, and most haunted lighthouses in America.

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

A historical landmark that has been a central hub of entertainment since 1928.

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.

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

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

A different kind of swan princess.

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

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

A glimpse at Walt Disney's vision for a "community of tomorrow," in miniature.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.