Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

America's Most Wanted's set resides in this tribute to the history of crime and punishment.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The first museum in the U.S. to address human rights issues in China.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

The Byzantine, pre-Columbian, and medieval art at this stately mansion are some of the most under-appreciated collections in D.C.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.