Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

This colonial tavern played host to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and other famous early Americans.

The narrowest house in America is seven feet of pure spite.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

Four, 18-foot-tall badminton shuttlecocks lie scattered about the lawn of a Kansas City museum.