Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

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

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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