The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

Walk through the sets of old western films at this small museum in Utah.

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

Collection of scores of race cars from the 1900s to recent lovingly maintained and displayed.

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

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

Memorial to the 137 lives lost on a ship fire, the whole hulk of which washed up on the Asbury Park shore.

A piece of telecommunications history.

This relief sculpture depicts America’s most famous coffee break.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

Visit a fourth-generation farm and museum dedicated to everyone's favorite fungi.

A bronze statue to commemorate the former president's visit to a local Polish-American festival.

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

A converted hangar displays dozens of helicopters, from a famous 1943 rescue chopper to several autogyros.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

Dedicated to one of the most successful boxers to compete in the heavyweight division.

Come for the history lesson, stay for the mule-pulled boat rides.

A well-preserved example of an early industrial operation in the northeastern United States.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.