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

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

The bank that helped fund the Mexican-American War and the purchase of Alaska met its downfall after helping Augusto Pinochet launder money.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

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

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.

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

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The whole world in one water tank.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

One of the only memorials dedicated to journalists who died in combat.

Bizarre Cavern.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.