The first home of the doomed aviatrix Amelia Earhart.

The face of the famed flier in a hillside in her hometown.

Lone survivor from Custer's Last Stand forever preserved.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

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

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

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

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A haunting tribute to pioneering photographer Clover Adams.

A tiny piece of the Moon is embedded in this stained glass masterpiece.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.