A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.