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

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.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

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

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

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

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

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

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

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

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

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