Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The collapse of the brand-new dam caused one of the worst floods in British history.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

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

The whole world in one water tank.

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

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