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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A graveyard that dates back over 200 years stands near a busy shopping center.

An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

Railroad officials in the early 1900s sought to spare travelers the sight of Roman soldiers’ private parts.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

This statue of one of baseball’s greatest pitchers looks like something out of a sci-fi horror movie.

Every drop of D.C. tap water flows through this old waterworks.

A 1,100-ton train fell through the floor in 1953. Workers got it patched up in just 72 hours.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

These massive concrete balls were used to mine gold in Virginia.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

These abandoned waterworks are crumbling into the Potomac River.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.