Places Edited by Jason Michael Walker

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

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Jail from the 19th century that was built by inmates.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

The world's longest known cave system.

Berry Gordy Jr.'s old home was the original headquarters of Motown Record Corporation.

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

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

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