Places canterburyk Wants to Go

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

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

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

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”