A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.

Bizarre Cavern.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

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

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

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

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

This Kansas City studio was home to Walt Disney's first animation business.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

A chessmaster's dream destination.

A subterranean haunt where wine and homemade biscottis are always on the menu.

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Another in a long tradition of legends regarding infernal seats.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

A kitschy, creepy St. Louis mainstay.

This mosaic-covered bar is brimming with curated curios.

A 35-foot-tall fork stuck in the ground outside an office building in Missouri.