This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

One of Chicago's last seafood smokehouses perfects a dying breed of fishcraft.

A hot dog stand where the heads are just as hot as the dogs.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A haunting statue called "Eternal Silence" has quite the reputation among visitors with active imaginations.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

A local farm's collection of unusual structures from a now defunct storybook amusement park.

A preserved 18th century homestead in Western Pennsylvania marks the spot where the Whiskey Rebellion began.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

Three abandoned missile silos are hiding in plain sight behind a suburban development in Maryland.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

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

This beloved Baltimore spot features caged dolls, a giant Pez collection, and many, many mannequins.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

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

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

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

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe's grave.

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

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

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

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