Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

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

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A 30-foot stack of piano keys memorializes one of the greatest keys players in jazz history.

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

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

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

This recently restored timepiece has stood all around Kansas City.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.