There’s something for everyone at this engaging emporium.

A local prank turned town icon.

Gaudí's famously flamboyant architectural style is on full display in this sprawling park and garden.

A sycamore tree grown from seeds that traveled to the moon.

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

A giant concrete churn carries the legacy of American resilience, unity, and greed.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

Public opinion is still divided on this enormous sculpture in front of Baltimore's Penn Station.

This 17th-century street hidden beneath Edinburgh was once a breeding ground for the black death.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

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

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