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

A musical instrument played by the sea.

This former sugarcane transport tunnel is now a portal to a lovely beach.

The bat-covered home of one of the world's most popular brands of rum is located on a tropical Art Deco campus.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

The whole world in one water tank.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This roadside attraction has been serving out its fair share of hearty folklore and chaos since 1858.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

A psychological self-portrait in the form of a giant, segmented head.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.