When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

This underground holding cell was forgotten for over a century and rediscovered in the 1960s.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Late at night, the bust of the "Dracula" actor was snuck onto the facade of this Budapest castle.

This California estate was either haunted by ghosts or the Marx brothers.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

Savor the famous tempura-fried pork tenderloin sandwich at this long-standing Kansas City food counter.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

There was a top secret plan during World War II to seal a group of soldiers inside the rock.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

A historic observatory precariously perched at the "Top of Europe."

One of America's largest retail chains got its start in one of its most remote rural destinations.