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

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.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

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.

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

An original apothecary from 1792.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.