Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

An impressive collection of dollhouses and an homage to the frog-leg canning industry.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

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

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

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