Places obxcane Wants to Go

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

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

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

The site of one of the deadliest skirmishes during the Battle of Fredricksburg.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

Visitors come from all over to bring gifts and tokens to the grave of Alice, who is thought to have died of a broken heart.

A haunting—but not haunted—chapel remains in the woods.

Take a stroll through this centuries-old tunnel of enormous moss-hung evergreens, nestled among the grounds of America’s first public sculpture garden.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

The story of the country’s most famous sports magazine began at a historic Myrtle Beach golf club.

If it wasn’t for a real estate agent with a penchant for old-school arcades, this hands-on collection of nostalgic flipper machines might never exist.

A six-foot pair of socks hangs from a drawer of the world's largest bureau.

A famous—but endangered—plant is on view at an unassuming nature preserve a quick drive from Myrtle Beach.

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.