Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

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

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

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.