A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

At this former Prohibition speakeasy, electric birds signaled the arrival of hooch.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

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

The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

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

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

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

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

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.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

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

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Established in 1925, Kiddie Park claims to be the oldest amusement park in the U.S. - a cozy little time warp nestled in a shady corner of the modern world.

Soldiers honored the beloved Pat with a special grave.