A museum dedicated to Latvian history in the heart of Maryland.

This methodist cemetery is slowly receding into the wilderness along a Maryland highway.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

An amazing example of early-20th-century architecture, this church features marble transported from Utah.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This series of rope-style bridges brings visitors into a jungle layer that is usually reserved for birds and monkeys.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

A well-worn trail through thick woods in northern Montgomery County leads to an old schoolhouse.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.