Places kaira Wants to Go

This old steel industry company town has a tradition of parking cars on the sidewalk so people can walk in the narrow streets.

Tucked into the heart of historic Irvington, this 56-year-old metaphysical shop specializes in the olde ways.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.