An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

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

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

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

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

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

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

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

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

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

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.