Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

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

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

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

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

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

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

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

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."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.