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

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

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

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

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.

The man who wasn't there.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.