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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

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

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

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

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

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

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

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

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

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

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

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

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

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

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

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.