The humble home where the famous beat author lived briefly and wrote one of his most famous works.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

Reclaimed by nature, the ruins of Doodletown, New York are remnants of a town consumed by a state park.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Step back in time on this preserved 1800s farm.

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

This historical art colony is adorned with thousands of hand-carved concrete sculptures in the Mayan Revival style.

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.

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

The final resting place of the Seminole Indian chief who fought against government occupation in Florida.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

Ruins of a Carnegie family mansion on Cumberland Island.

Carved faces add a touch of magic to this island's impressive oak trees.

A life-sized baby elephant tombstone marks the grave of a circus owner at a country church in southern Georgia.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

This fairytale-inspired cottage was created by a university literature professor.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.