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The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

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

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones’ locker.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

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.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

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

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