Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

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

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Two flush headstones mark the only known graves to be embedded in an airport runway.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

The way these carnivorous dinosaurs are posed is an homage to a classic work of paleoart.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Charles Dickens described the concert room in this amazing Victorian hall as "the most perfect room in the world."

Created as a punny statement about genetic engineering this monstrous hybrid statue has become a beloved icon.

The red letters in the literary pavement leading to the library form a mysterious code.

Gutted during the Liverpool Blitz, this architectural husk has been left destroyed in honor of the dead.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

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