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

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

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

A miniature golf course crafted inside the world's largest simulated cave.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.