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

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Travelers exchange letters with woodland creatures at this mini post office.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

This concert pavilion on the shore of the Great Salt Lake has been destroyed by fire, water, and disinterest but keeps coming back.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.