Places sarahtaynor Wants to Go

Three courses accompanied by Christian rock.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

The playful side of the Columbus community is on full display.

A 2,000-year-old Adena burial mound located along a busy street in Columbus, Ohio.

The walls of the statehouse tell the story of Ohio’s prehistoric past.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Artifacts fill the old headquarters of the hugely influential political movement to ban alcohol in the United States.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

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

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Most historians agree that the so-called "Gentleman Pirate" wasn't much of either of those things.