The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.