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

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

One of the first commercially successful anthracite-powered iron-making operations in North America.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.