Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.