The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

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

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

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

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

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

Bizarre Cavern.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.