This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

These trees are living witnesses to events that inspired poet Walt Whitman’s service during the American Civil War.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

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

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

This labyrinthine resting place of Black American leaders has been reclaimed by nature.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.