An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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.

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.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.