Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

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

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

Bizarre Cavern.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

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

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

Two hula hoops appeared on the tree after a storm, and the collection kept growing.

This tiny site in Iowa, part of a patchwork national wildlife refuge, is home to ancient flora and fauna.