Places afink Wants to Go

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

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

The whole world in one water tank.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

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

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.

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

A small museum along the Susquehanna River is home to a rich collection of Native American artifacts.