A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

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.

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."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

This empty Detroit high school was too expensive to maintain or destroy.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

A fiberglass jungle, deep in the wilds of the Cleveland suburbs.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The former broadcast site has been reimagined as a museum about the medium.

This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.

Inside the unassuming cemetery chapel is a magnificent stained glass window and mosaics.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.