This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

The statues honor the state transportation employees who've died while performing their work-related duties.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

Visit the site of a subway powered by nothing more than air--and lots of it.

Where the legendary Orson Welles got his theatrical start before "Citizen Kane."

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

A 12-foot sculpture serves as a constant reminder of the importance of protecting and restoring the Boardman River.   

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

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

One of the only single-person private gravesites in New York City.