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

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

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

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A giant fiberglass Muffler Man found new life as a rodeo guardian.

Artist Jack Pierson made this surreal sculpture in honor of Wonder Valley, a countercultural community on edge of civilization.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A celebration of once forgotten materials.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.