The overgrown remains of an old rail bridge rise above the valley like ancient Greek ruins.

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

Once forgotten and built over, this historic Black cemetery now houses a poignant memorial.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

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

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

Small Island off the coast of Greenland.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.