The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

The Decoy Capital of the World.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

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

The smallest covered bridge in Maryland.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

Beautiful views of the surrounding hills and birds of prey can be found at this sanctuary.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

A downtown park built on top of unclaimed graves.

Official museum, hall of fame, and repository of the Texas Rangers.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.