A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

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

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.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

The world's only known button museum.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

An abandoned amusement park based on the popular 1940s Red Ryder comic strip.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

The world's largest carnivore sanctuary is home to over 450 meat-eating rescues.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.