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

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.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

There are more than 4 million bricks inside this unofficial Lego museum in a former middle school.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

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

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.