This plaque honors the unsung Black songstress once known as the “greatest singer of her race.”

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

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

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

The tomb of history's greatest potato promoter is surrounded by tubers.

A phantasmagoric tomb honors a Belgian artist-scientist's contributions to the world of spooky entertainment.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

Europe's largest community of crocodiles and alligators.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

These unique markers designate the route American forces took during the Liberation of France.

An effigy of a trapped paratrooper dangles from a Normandy church to commemorate one remarkable D-Day event.

Bloodstains can still be seen in this medieval church where two medics saved lives on D-Day.