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Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

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

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

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

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

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

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

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.

When local government began removing public benches, the public pushed back, and vibrant, community-built seating now outnumbers the official shelters at Chattanooga bus stops.

Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.