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

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

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.

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Home to the Titanic Historical Society's collection.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The oldest brick house in the state of Ohio.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

This presidential tomb was not dedicated until years after Harding's death due to personal controversy.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

This tower-tomb honors a president who only held office for a little over a month but dedicated his life to his country.

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Inside this wonderland of weird, visitors are treated to a collection ranging from skeletons to haunted artifacts.

The largest ancient burial mound in Ohio.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A medical facility that has been kept frozen in time.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.