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.

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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 high desert botanical garden is a unique display of Northern New Mexico's geology.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A serene garden path lined with 36 haiku stamped into clay stones.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

A home designed to be on the cutting edge of comfortable, low-cost living.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.