The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

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

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

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.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

A pyramid commemorates the birthplace of James Buchanan, the 15th president of the United States

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.