One of the largest collections of Catalan literature and cultural materials outside of Spain, created by a community of 1960s expats.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

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

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.