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

Home to an eclectic collection of over 200 vintage motorcycles, Americana, and some of the most extraordinary antiques from all around the world.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

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

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

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

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

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

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

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

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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."

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Designed by Horace Trumbauer in 1893, this Gothic-style castle is now a home for academics.

A New Jersey state park that was once Napoleon's brother's sprawling estate.

This tiny structure was built by the creator of the Brooklyn Bridge.