Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

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

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

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.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

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

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

The tomb was guarded by soldiers from both sides of the war, and some left their initials carved in the brick.

The graveyard holding the remains of George Washington's slaves was forgotten for nearly 200 years.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.