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

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.