The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

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

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The end of the 4 Line is also the end of the line for 300,000 souls in one of NYC's most illustrious cemeteries.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

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

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

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

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

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

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

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

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.