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

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The Virginia home of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence is being preserved with a unique glass facade.

Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

The eerie ruins of a remote abandoned hamlet said to be founded by the survivors of a shipwreck.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

America's first public mental health facility.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Paranormal investigators claim this abandoned asylum is the most haunted spot in the eastern U.S.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.