An inconspicuous suburban street corner is the site of San Diego's worst air disaster.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

A faded sign from the 1920s remembers Baltimore's resistance toward banning alcohol.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

Swarms of butterflies cannot compare to the awe inspired by the publicly-funded nakedness once displayed in this sunken garden.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

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