The giant squid's 27-foot-long corpse lies preserved within a Sarasota aquarium.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The literary king of the Jazz Age was born in this lovely Minnesota home which still honors his legacy.

1887 era Russian Orthodox church in Minneapolis.

The oldest continually used church in Minneapolis also sells great meat pies.

A bronze statue on a downtown corner honors Minneapolis's favorite career gal.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

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.

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

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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.