This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

Over 120,000 curious objects that have shaped our modern world.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

Yo, Adrian!

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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