Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

This small museum is dedicated to the study of coprolites, or fossilized poop.

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.

This museum is dedicated to the first coast-to-coast highway.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This dazzling wooden church was constructed as part of an elaborate peace project after the Thirty Years' War.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

Every fifth of November, effigies of Guy Fawkes are thrown onto bonfires across Great Britain. But this Guy has managed to survive his fiery fate for almost 300 years.

Florence’s archaeological museum displays an ordinary stool that once shattered one of its most prized artifacts.

The alleged site of the months-long imprisonment of a Japanese prince.

Learn about the indigenous people of Japan's northernmost islands.

Why does this Italian coastal city have a statue of a 17th-century samurai?

The first atheist monument on public land in the United States.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

This nondescript coffee shop conceals one of the wildest patisseries in New York City.

The lost library of Alexandria, revived as a spearhead of cultural preservation.

The iconic statue was moved to a new spot overlooking the James river after several years as a mascot for the local baseball team.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

Behind a 300-year-old temple hides a small tomb said to house the bones of 17th-century Dutch soldiers.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.