Places Heather Marcello Wants to Go

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

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

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

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

Bizarre Cavern.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Sacks of potatoes, made of cast stone, mark where the iconic potato sheds once stood along the river.

A legendary boxing venue and ring featured in Rocky V.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."