An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

Visitors flock to see this church tower's unintended feature: It happens to resemble a giant chicken from multiple points of view.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

North Central Florida's largest flea market and a weekend roadtripper's dream.

Florida castle built with aluminum printing plates.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

This home is decked out like a psychedelic explosion of colors and bowling balls.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

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.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

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

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

The oldest building in the District of Columbia was preserved because of a mistaken connection to George Washington.

Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.

The house where John Wilkes Booth conspired with his co-conspirators.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

The national park was once a plantation estate.