This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

One car at a time please.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This unusual building straddles two countries.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Down the road from where the Wright brothers lifted off is another flight tribute practically hidden from sight in the woods.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A storefront museum in Asbury Park honoring the Jersey Shore’s deep history of mystery—including the Jersey Devil.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.