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

The wooded estate of the Forest Service employee responsible for D.C.’s cherry blossom trees.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

An overgrown garden stands as a grim marker of an unrealized dream.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.