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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.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

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

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

Six ravens are kept captive (but well-fed) at the Tower of London to prevent the fall of the Crown.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.