Places keslar 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.

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

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

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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.