Nanjemoy, Maryland
The Ghost Fleet of Mallows Bay
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
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Nanjemoy, Maryland
The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Fort Meade, Maryland
A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Silver Spring, Maryland
An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Wareham, Massachusetts
The world's best collection to gauge whether or not you should wear a scarf outside.
Worcester, Massachusetts
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.
Belchertown, Massachusetts
This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.
Somerville, Massachusetts
The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.
Framingham, Massachusetts
Location of the first public performance and singing of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Framingham, Massachusetts
Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Designed to represent the mushroom clouds the artists witnessed during nuclear testing.
Natick, Massachusetts
A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.
Weston, Massachusetts
The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.
Framingham, Massachusetts
In 1777, two men were killed after being struck by lightning at the same time.
Hopkinton, Massachusetts
A monument to the winner of the 1946 Boston Marathon, Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides.