This abandoned Victorian-style house was built in 1884.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

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

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.