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

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

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A curious fountain that has no water and includes Satan, a crab, and 9 giraffes.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.