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

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Baltimore's first skyscraper may be home to the inspiration behind pulp fiction's most celebrated bird.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

A statue of the English poet for whom this Delaware town is named is ritually dressed in seasonally appropriate clothing.

World War II-era bunkers are hidden under the beaches of this picturesque park, which is still scattered with wartime watchtowers.

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

Designed to commemorate the founding of the first settlement in Delaware.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.