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

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

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

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.

It's not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music's library has been described as a "cathedral of books."

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Seven golden statues rise into the sky from sculptor Victor Victori's New Jersey front lawn.

The final resting place of a famous 19th-century murder victim whose identity is still a mystery.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

If it feels like a speakeasy, that’s because it probably was one.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

Vacant Beaux-Arts buildings that serve as reminders of a beach town’s glory days.

Edison's cast-in-place concrete houses were a failure, but way ahead of their time.

This unassuming retro burger joint was billed as “diner of the future” at the 1939 World's Fair.

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

A world-class collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata.

This old-fashioned candy shop, ice cream parlor, and diner served as the setting for one of TV's most controversial series finales.