Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

World's second largest particle accelerator, where nature reveals its secrets.

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

A "Texanic" (gigantic Texas) collection of Art Deco architecture at Dallas' historic Fair Park.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.

An icon among Florida's pre-Disney tourist attractions.

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

This abandoned NASA launch site is now a memorial to a trio of astronauts who were killed there.

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Only hotel where you can legally launder money.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

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