A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The "Sultan of Swat" once attended a school at the site of this baseball field.

One artist’s scheme to expand museum viewing hours into the evening led to the illumination of an entire city.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

Contrary to popular belief, this secluded statue doesn't represent Pennsylvania's founder.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

Lehigh Valley barge No. 79 still gets tugged along - but now it houses a museum and unusual performances.

This impressive mansion in Vinegar Hill has some mysterious details in its architecture.

This old estate is a remnant of when the Bronx was a popular summer destination for wealthy New Yorkers.

Every dish is blessed in this basement eatery beneath a Hare Krishna temple.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.

Volunteer-run library dedicated to exploring five decades of activism history.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Love, knishes, and best wishes from this legendary Lower East Side bakery.