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A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

The United States' oldest Episcopal church still in active use.

A historic cemetery filled with quirky faux wood art and unique tombstones.

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

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

This lovely tree was a thank you gift from the man known as "Public Enemy No.1."

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Explore the legends surrounding these mythical sea creatures inside this museum.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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