The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

This failed condo development was reborn as a street art hub.

The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

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

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

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

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.