A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

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

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

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

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Bizarre Cavern.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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