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

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

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.

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 U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

An Industrial Revolution-era public work that purified water using nothing but sand.

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.

The only Leonardo Da Vinci painting in the Western Hemisphere.

A public art jibe at one of the United States’ oldest and longest-serving senators.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

100 years later, they're still down there.

The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The span is crooked and made from two older recycled bridges.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.