This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

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

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.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

This stately building in Alexandria, Virginia was built by Freemasons to honor one of their most famous members.

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.

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

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The "last holdout of the Confederacy” actually sat at the edge of the Canadian border.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.