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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

The FBI's urban training course may have the highest fake crime rate in the world.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

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

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

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

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

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

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

The whole world in one water tank.

Where pardoned turkeys once spent their all-too-brief final days.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Located at the former Lorton Prison the Lucy Burns Museum tells the story of the 91 year history of the prison including the dark chapter of its involvement in the women's suffrage movement.

A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.