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

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

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A memorial commemorating the only Scottish police investigation into an extraterrestrial incident.

A close look reveals that the Scottish monument is just slightly off-kilter.

This obscure walkway links Edinburgh’s Old Town with one of the city's prime vantage points.

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This Upstate New York park squeezes a lot of history into its two-acre triangular space.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.