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

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

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

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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

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

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

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

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

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

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."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.