Places jesadair Wants to Go

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

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

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

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

An oddities shop packed with twisted treasures inspired by Oscar Wilde and Edgar Allan Poe.

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

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

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.