In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

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

The world's oldest continuously operating airport was founded by the Wright Brothers.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

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

This abandoned sea fort has become an accidental bird sanctuary.

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

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

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

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

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

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

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

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

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

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

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

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

A swimming hole in the historic industrial quarry that supplied the marble for the Baltimore Washington Monument.