An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

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

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.