This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.

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

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

An interesting look into 18th-century American history.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.