This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

America's first public mental health facility.

The "first cat," "first dog," and even a presidential pygmy hippo all get their due in this museum.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

This former asylum for Black Americans is haunted by its history of violence and racism.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

These old doors are covered in the signatures of Rehoboth Beach artists dating back to the 1930s.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.