This ruined quarry once produced the distinctive red sandstone used for construction projects in Washington, D.C.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.