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

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

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

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

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

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

A wonderful and easily overlooked museum tucked in Ohio's Burke Lakefront Airport.

Abandoned since the 1950s, the streetcar lane beneath the heavily trafficked bridge lays empty and unused.

A star fort along the C&O Canal in western Maryland that protected America in three wars.

The only depiction of Abraham Lincoln holding a weapon, and the names of all 9,000 Cuyahoga veterans of the Civil War.

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

On a wall in Cleveland, Ohio find the story of a highly connected fictional community of organisms that created remarkable, lasting structures.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.