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One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

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

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

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

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

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.