Places rreodc Wants to Go

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

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

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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

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

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

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.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.