Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.