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

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Two plaques commemorate the site of Shakespeare's first theatre.

While there are no actual snakes in the history of this crooked road, there may be a number of dead horses.

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

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.

2300-year-old Roman road connecting the empire.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

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

A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.