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

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

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

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

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

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Take an otherworldly journey in a school dedicated to out-of-body experiences.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

This collection of over 50 classic pinball machines awaits visitors to downtown Roanoke.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

This quaint New Jersey graveyard is an eternal resting place for thousands of beloved pets.