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

A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This four-story steel sphere in Maryland was used to test biological weapons.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.