Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

Neal Cassady may still have an open tab at one of Denver's oldest watering holes.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A quirky Poe-themed joint on an island keen to celebrate its overlooked connection to the famous writer.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.