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

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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

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.

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

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

Bizarre Cavern.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

A monument to one of the few Olympic flames ever to be lit outside of the host city.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.