The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

A small 19th-century graveyard tucked away in the middle of a suburban neighborhood.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

During Prohibition, the U.S. Congress had an "official" bootlegger, with his own Capitol Hill office.

Sit where JFK proposed to Jackie or where Nixon dined on meatloaf at this storied pub.

100 years later, they're still down there.

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

This leafy estate is worth $18 million and is so grand it has two mailing addresses.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.