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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

This quaint archive of the silent era preserves and pays homage to a seminal moment in film history.

A monument to the love people have for their pets.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

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

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

A bronze monument to the infamous radio broadcast in the real New Jersey town where the fictional Martians crash-landed.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

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

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

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