Places Edited by CC

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This solitary gravestone is separated from the rest in Appleton, explaining why local legends continue to surround it.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Remnants of 19th century vigilante justice.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

America's first public mental health facility.