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

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

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

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.

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

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

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

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

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

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

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

A rotating cast of guys and dolls in front of a Washington, D.C. building.