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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This Asian-inspired tower in a lush urban park provides spectacular panoramic views of Baltimore.

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

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

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

One of the oldest surviving lock houses on the Ohio River.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.

A storybook church made from a mesmerizing medley of multi-colored stones.

Rows of 19th-century brick ovens used to process coal into coke form the center of a wooded park.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

A former Canadian automobile ferry mysteriously appeared in the Black River 20 years ago, and now it quietly rusts away.