World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

Surrounded by traditional homes, this Tolkien-esque dwelling stands out on a quiet street in suburban Maryland.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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 cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

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

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."

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.