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

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

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.