A nearly 500-year-old sculpture depicts a man eating a sack of babies, and no one is sure why.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Destructive children, start your engines.

Decommissioned NYC subway cars are dumped into the ocean to create this underwater wildlife habitat.

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

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

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

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

Remains of a historic fountain that was mysteriously lost in the demolition of a D.C. traffic circle.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.

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

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.