Baltimore, Maryland
Edgar Allan Poe’s Grave
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Baltimore, Maryland
The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.
Baltimore, Maryland
Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.
Rockville, Maryland
The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.
Silver Spring, Maryland
A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.
Kensington, Maryland
The tallest The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints temple in the world soars above the Beltway.
Washington, D.C.
Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Princeton, New Jersey
The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.
West Windsor Township, New Jersey
A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.
Edinburgh, Scotland
The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.
Brooklyn, New York
A mass grave for victims of one of the city’s worst fires.
Brooklyn, New York
A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.
New York, New York
This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.
New York, New York
Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.
New York, New York
New York's unstoppable progress turned this cemetery into the smallest burial ground in the city.
New York, New York
Named the fifth most beautiful building in America in 1885, this former courthouse boasts the best view in the Village.
New York, New York
The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.
New York, New York
A reminder to choose water over wine since 1888.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Washington, D.C.
The little-known, 300-year history of the area includes former lives as a bustling tobacco port, parking lot, and industrial dump.
Brooklyn, New York
Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.