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Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

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

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

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

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Marie told fortunes from her small stand on the Boardwalk for decades, including to a young Bruce Springsteen who would busk outside her booth.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

A historic Black graveyard hidden in the parking lot of one of America's largest malls.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.