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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A crumbling Beaux Arts monument to the Bay Area's age of rail.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.