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

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The skeletal white beams stand as a monument to religious dissent.

The Kirkland Monument remembers a selfless Civil War hero who braved the battlefield to give water to his dying enemies.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

The 19th-century vessel floats proudly on Lake Titicaca, but its journey from Britain to the Peruvian altiplano was far from smooth sailing.

The Incas turned this ancient Wari aqueduct into an imposing defensive gate.

Twice a day a speeding train passes only inches from the homes of this residential neighborhood.

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

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

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

The hide of Stonewall Jackson's equine sidekick is on display not far from where the ashes of his bones are buried.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.