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

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.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

An obsolete, vanishing traffic device warns Cincinnati drivers away from middle-of-the-road obstructions.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

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

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage train station tiles.

This multisensory alley has the ability to remind bustling citygoers to stop and smell the roses.

The building is topped by a Statue of Liberty statue whose torch has stayed burning since the museum opened.

This former office building has been transformed into an immersive music venue and art space.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

A flamboyantly decorated bridge signals diversity and fellowship at the entry to Indianapolis' Broad Ripple Village.

A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.

Once adorning a New York skyscraper, these reclaimed ruins now haunt an Indiana park.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.