An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

This museum honors the composer of “Swannee Ribber.”

An author's private collection of quirky travel-trinkets and oddities has become a rotating mini-museum in the window of a local bookstore.

These former theme park figures have a new lease on life outside a water plant-turned-restaurant.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

Bizarre Cavern.

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

Senators used to relax in the nearly forgotten marble tubs now hidden in the U.S. Capitol Building's basement.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.