A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The sign at the garden gate reads: "These Plants Can Kill."