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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A well-worn marker in a forgotten alleyway is all that remains of what had been one of Manhattan's most beautiful buildings.

Oldest surviving example of a Dutch saltbox frame house in America.

On this island, you suck away your garbage via an elaborate pneumatic tube system.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

One of many reminders of Tesla's scientific contributions overlooks the falls which inspired him.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

A dark patch of the ceiling at Grand Central Terminal which was not restored is still stained brown by tobacco.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

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

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.