The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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 haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

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

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A museum dedicated to an incredible woman who founded a pioneering school for rural Black students.