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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Home of a French nobleman's short-lived attempt at raising cattle in the Badlands of North Dakota.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

A Rocky Mountain city provides a happy ending for a pinto pony and his Brobdingnagian red chair.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

Long before guestbooks and hotels, frontier travelers signed their names on this rock face.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

This recently rediscovered Civil War-era submarine was the first to ever sink an enemy ship.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...

The Decoy Capital of the World.