The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

There is an art, a science, and certainly a responsibility to occupying the Big Red Chair, and this is where it's learned.

Michigan’s most famous shoe tree.

Talula the swan has been welcoming visitors to Elk Rapids, Michigan, for more than four decades.

Yo, Adrian!

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

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

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

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

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

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

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

This tremendous timepiece was once the largest cuckoo clock in the world.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.