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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

An industrial waste tourist attraction.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A collection of bite-sized buildings creates a magical mini village in the Pennsylvania mountains.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

Housed in a 1912 architectural masterpiece, this outlet of the Golden Arches is a real beauty.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Daily lunch spot for many of Washington, D.C.'s cab drivers.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

Nelson Mandela lived here with his family from 1946 until his arrest in 1962.

This beautiful waterfall is not easy to reach, but offers a stunning view of the pristine green valley.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

A safari-themed castle in the South African bush with the largest maze in the southern hemisphere.

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.