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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This tree is a living witness to the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.