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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Bizarre Cavern.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

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

This restaurant has been a haven for D.C.'s LGBTQ community since the 1950s.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

An easily overlooked memorial to a Ukrainian famine-genocide that killed over 4 million people.

This lovely pocket park is one of the most under appreciated in D.C.

This imposing Masonic temple a mile from the White House was the first public library in Washington, D.C.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

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

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.