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

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

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

An 80-year-old plane tree is devouring an iron bench at Ireland's oldest law school.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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

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

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

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