Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

This legendary "evil" doll has been haunting the citizens of Key West for over 100 years.

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

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

This statue honors the author's groundbreaking family story.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.

A gift from Scotland to the United States in memory of the 270 lives lost when Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie due to a terrorist bombing.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

The rogue roots are gradually consuming some of the historic marble grave markers.

It wouldn't be long after purchasing this farm, Brown would lead his siege on Harper's Ferry.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The Brigadier General was so afraid of being buried alive that he had a buzzer installed in his mausoleum, just in case he woke up.