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A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Brain collection and database that narrows the gap between man and animal.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

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

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

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

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

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

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.