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

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

The only public swimming pool in Baltimore open to Black Americans during segregation is now a permanent memorial art exhibit.

This grove was planted more than a century ago by the War Mothers of World War I.

A miniature city within a city, complete with traffic signs, signals, and streets to teach Baltimore's youth traffic safety laws.

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

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

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

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

On land once deemed “valueless,” a multipurpose community garden proves the potential of urban farming.

Developers built a Walmart around one family's plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

An underwater road considered a possible Atlantis location.

One man's love of sea life and art has turned his home into a temple of outsider island art.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

A rare example of a rural school in Washington, D.C.

The Conduit Road Schoolhouse is one of the last one-room schoolhouses remaining in Washington, D.C.

Dedicated to a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who was also a bird watcher and artist.