After hundreds of years of settlement, this once-bustling fishing village sunk into the Chesapeake Bay.

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

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

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

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

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.

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

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Bizarre Cavern.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

The ruins of a Duke's bucolic dream, where camels once roamed alongside "Dutch" windmills and faux-Italian vineyards.