The first memorial dedicated solely to the Black troops who fought for the Union.

A clone of a cloned tree that was so important it allegedly had its own guards.

This grisly headstone doesn’t seem to be resting in peace.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

The district's only illusionarium supports free writing programs for local students with every purchase.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

An allegorical sculpture in Maryland wears the artist’s politics on its trunk.

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

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.