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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

Massive mounds of golden sand look like a desert landscape randomly plopped in an Arctic forest.

One woman's UFO-themed campground, complete with self-built energy vortexes, UFO-themed weddings, and magic bushes.

This strange moor has a song written about it, Bronze Age carvings, and an alien sighting.

The highest point in Indiana is curated by an Eagle scout but may be in danger of losing its record to a nearby garbage pile.

A chilling disappearance (and rescue) of a child uncovers a geological mystery.

The only freestanding table rock formation east of the Mississippi.

This hidden stream beneath Indianapolis makes an appearance in the best-selling novel "Underground Airlines."

This mysterious hill seems to pull objects uphill.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.