Ellicott City, Maryland
Enchanted Forest Theme Park
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
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Ellicott City, Maryland
Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.
Baltimore, Maryland
The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.
Colmar Manor, Maryland
Politicians, bureaucrats, and military officers gathered in this field near the Capitol to settle their disputes with blood.
Smith Island, Maryland
An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.
College Park, Maryland
Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.
Baltimore, Maryland
An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.
Rockville, Maryland
The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.
Laurel, Maryland
This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.
Boyds, Maryland
This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.
Thurmont, Maryland
This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.
Monkton, Maryland
This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Boonsboro, Maryland
Bizarre Cavern.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Columbia, Maryland
A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.
Havre de Grace, Maryland
Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.
Ellicott City, Maryland
An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Hicksville, New York
The last standing puppet theater on Long Island.
Red Hook, New York
A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.
Bethel, New York
The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.
Brooklyn, New York
The famed amusement district marks the beginning of summer with a wild procession of nautical creatures.