This giant weaving shuttle celebrates Lancashire's importance during the Industrial Revolution.

Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

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

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

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

The 72-foot giant escaped confinement in a large patch of mulch only to be reburied in the sandy shores of the Potomac River.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

These precariously placed ruins harken back to a 13th-century castle.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

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

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

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.