Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

A remarkable time capsule of American manufacturing deep in Maryland coal country.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

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

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

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

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

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

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

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

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