The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

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

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

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

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.