Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

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

The rooster who crossed the road lives on forever in Takoma Park, Maryland.

Giant acorn-shaped 19th century gazebo from which suburban Washingtonians gazed upon the original "silver" spring.

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

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

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A collection of artifacts from Maryland's maritime past.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

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

The 320-year-old tree that greeted General Lafayette and rerouted an interstate highway.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

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

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

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

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.