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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

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

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

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

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

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."