A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

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

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

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

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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.

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

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.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

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