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

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

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

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

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

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

This former Cold War missile control site played an important role in the creation of GPS.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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

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

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A memorial dedicated to a highly decorated Marine and Korean War veteran, who also happened to be a horse.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This 16-foot, intricately detailed model of the Gearing-class destroyer has been called the most detailed model ship ever built.

A Maryland museum dedicated to Black history, housed in a historic church.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.