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Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

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

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

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

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

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

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

Bizarre Cavern.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

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.

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