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A labor of love built by local hang-gliding enthusiasts, this ideal launch spot was outlawed by the authorities and has since been largely abandoned.

This fort down the Potomac from Washington, D.C. was once the only defensive fort protecting the capital.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

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

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.