This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

One of America's oldest continuously operating hotels offers a blend of rich history and historic architecture in the heart of Annapolis.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

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

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A charming tour of the umbrella, tin-can, and drinking-straw capital of the world.

This is the last surviving Bollman truss bridge in the world.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

At the birthplace of American railroading, a world-class collection of historic trains.

Baltimore’s longest row of identical attached houses

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

This museum honors an African-American renaissance man of the early 18th century.

A local prank turned town icon.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

The little-known final resting place of one of America's greatest writers.

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