The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Hordes of precariously balanced stone figures crowd the shores of the Hudson River.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

Haunted Victorian house that inspired a legendary "Ghostbusters" court ruling.

A waterway covered over after the Industrial Revolution has been unearthed and cleaned up, for the enjoyment of fish and humans alike.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

This crumbling little graveyard was saved from the undergrowth by concerned veterans.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."