A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

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

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

America's first public mental health facility.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.