Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

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.

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

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.