A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

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

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

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

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

An excursion train traverses a picturesque red-rock canyon along the Verde River.

This 24-acre park offers a place for meditation in the midst of Sedona's iconic red rocks.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

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

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

The remains of the furnace and iron works that produced the massive Hudson River Chain still stand in the woods of New York.