Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

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

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

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

Bizarre Cavern.

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

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.

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

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

An 18th-century home taken over by antique automatons and musical machines (Closed).

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.