Places arizonakarenina Wants to Go

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.