This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

A relic of FDR's brief foray into utopian urban planning.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

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

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.