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Bizarre Cavern.

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.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

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

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.”

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

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.