A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

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

Four bald cypress trees in Lafayette Square, across from the White House, mark the southern edge of a 100,000 year old cypress swamp.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

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

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

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."