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

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

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

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

One man's quest to save his town with a trail of record-breaking sculptures.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.