Richmond, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.
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Richmond, Virginia
This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.
Pantelleria, Italy
This ancient walled garden turns fog into food.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
Vienna, Austria
The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.
Karpacz, Poland
On this Polish road, an optical illusion makes cars seem to roll uphill.
Munich, Germany
This poignant tribute to the White Rose movement showcases artifacts related to the heroic anti-Nazi struggle.
Munich, Germany
Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.
Munich, Germany
A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.
Berlin, Germany
A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Vienna, Austria
Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.
Vienna, Austria
The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.
Vienna, Austria
The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.
Gryfino, Poland
Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.
Baltimore, Maryland
A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.
Baltimore, Maryland
A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Baltimore, Maryland
This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.
Baltimore, Maryland
The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.