A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Home of the physician who set the leg of John Wilkes Booth after the Lincoln assassination.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

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

This beautiful vintage movie palace has seen little change in form or function since the 1920s.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

America's smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.