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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

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

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.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

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

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

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.