The very center of Paris is surrounded by a bevy of strange good luck rituals.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

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

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

The Forest Service's surprisingly sophisticated collection of wildfire prevention art features America's most beloved bear.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

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

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.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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

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