Baltimore, Maryland
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This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
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Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Baltimore, Maryland
The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.
Baltimore, Maryland
This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.
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.
Baltimore, Maryland
It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
San Francisco, California
The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.
San Francisco, California
This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
San Francisco, California
Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.
San Francisco, California
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.
San Francisco, California
Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.
San Francisco, California
The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.
San Francisco, California
In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.
San Francisco, California
A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
San Francisco, California
Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.
San Francisco, California
A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.