This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

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

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

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.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

The largest collection of Frazetta originals in the world.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.