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Roughly 17 million letters to Santa have found their way to this Arctic Circle post office.

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

This 5-by-6-foot wooden hut is the smallest historic post office in the U.S.

The smallest post office in the United States is no bigger than a broom closet.

This modest post office sits on the site of H.H. Holmes' famous murder castle.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

This century-old grotesque has a mysterious history and may not actually be a rabbit.

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Here’s how Robert the Doll earned his reputation as the most haunted doll in the world.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

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

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

Known as the most resilient water tower in the region.

This beautiful defunct water tower adds a European flair to a traditional Japanese neighborhood.