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

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

Mining caused an asbestos emergency in this small town.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.