The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

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

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

The Decoy Capital of the World.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The corporeal remains of Napoleon III's dentist rest under this 15-story obelisk.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.