Places waywardwillard Wants to Go

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

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

A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

The ruins of this long-abandoned unsuccessful gold mine can still be found.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

This Maryland farm is known for its amazing corn mazes and its 30-foot junkbots.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

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

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

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

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.