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Baltimore, MD
Edgar Allan Poe was buried at Westminster Burying Ground after his mysterious death in Baltimore in 1849, then moved to the prominent monument near the cemetery entrance in 1875. Visitors can see both the monument and his original burial place inside the historic graveyard.
Boston, MA
Near the vanished street where Edgar Allan Poe was born, Boston has installed a dramatic statue of the writer striding forward with a raven and a heart spilling from his suitcase. The surrounding plaza is officially named for Poe, despite his famously complicated relationship with his birth city.
Virginia Beach, VA
Psychic Edgar Cayce and his supporters founded the Association for Research and Enlightenment in 1931 to preserve and study material from his thousands of claimed psychic readings. The Virginia Beach headquarters now includes a large metaphysical library, bookstore, meditation garden, historic hospital building and public programs on Cayce's work.
Blanding, UT
An authentic Ancestral Puebloan village sits directly behind the museum, including a kiva visitors can enter by ladder. The site is interpreted as a living cultural landscape rather than an abandoned ruin playground.
Lake Cormorant, MS
Three conical Mississippian mounds line an old Mississippi River levee near Lake Cormorant. Soil removal for levee work altered the landscape around them, and visitors should remain on the public road rather than entering the site.
Aurora, NE
This hands-on science center honors Harold “Doc” Edgerton, the Aurora-born MIT engineer whose stroboscopic photography froze bullets, milk drops and other split-second events in iconic images. Interactive exhibits connect his unusual high-speed experiments with broader science demonstrations.
Wakulla Springs, FL
Massive spring, mastodon finds, old Florida lodge, and filming history for classic creature movies.
Harpers Ferry, IA
More than 200 prehistoric mounds are preserved here, including numerous earthworks shaped like bears and birds. The landscape is culturally significant to multiple Indigenous nations and should be treated as a protected sacred archaeological site.
Abilene, KS
The complex combines Dwight D. Eisenhower's boyhood home with his presidential museum, library, and final resting place. The contrast between a modest Kansas home and a career that reached Supreme Allied Commander and the presidency gives the site unusual narrative scale.
San Diego, CA
A small historic cemetery in Old Town contains graves dating to the Mexican and early American periods, including markers now cut off by later street development.
Ramah, NM
For centuries, travelers carved names and messages into the sandstone poolside cliff at El Morro, leaving Indigenous petroglyphs, Spanish inscriptions and American emigrant signatures layered together. The inscriptions are protected and must never be touched or added to.
El Paso, TX
A museum at the base of the Franklin Mountains focused on Southwestern archaeology, Indigenous cultures and prehistoric lifeways.
Pueblo, CO
The museum incorporates the archaeological remains of the 1840s El Pueblo trading post alongside a reconstructed adobe plaza. It is a rare place where a downtown museum and an excavated frontier settlement occupy the same stop.
Hillside, NJ
Romani musician Singin' Sam Stevens is memorialized with an extravagant black-granite monument featuring gold musical notes, a carved amplifier, electric guitar and oversized record. The grave sits inside Evergreen Cemetery, which has posted daily visiting hours.
Elephant Butte, NM
The massive early twentieth-century dam transformed the Rio Grande and created New Mexico's largest reservoir. Travelers can view the structure from lawful public areas, but dam infrastructure and restricted zones should never be entered.
Elgin, NV
A preserved one-room schoolhouse stands in remote Rainbow Canyon; tours are scheduled or by arrangement rather than guaranteed daily access.
Alton, IL
A tall cemetery monument honors abolitionist editor Elijah Lovejoy, murdered by a pro-slavery mob in Alton in 1837.
Evansville, IN
Elizabeth Harrison, a recognized leader within a nineteenth-century Romani traveling community, died in 1895 and was buried at Oak Hill Cemetery after a funeral that drew widespread public attention. Her family monument remains in Section 23; historical sources often use the period title "Queen of the Gypsies," but OddWay should describe the site with the more respectful Romani terminology.
Medford, MA
A memorial in Medford Cemetery remembers Elizabeth Short, the Massachusetts-born woman whose 1947 murder in Los Angeles became known as the Black Dahlia case. Short is not buried here, but the marker gives her hometown region a physical connection to one of America's most famous unsolved murders.
Elkhorn, MT
A near-ghost town centered on two unusually ornate surviving frontier buildings, Fraternity Hall and Gillian Hall. Some nearby structures remain privately owned.
Elkmont, TN
Elkmont grew from a logging settlement into a resort community before much of it was absorbed into Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Preserved cabins, restored structures and traces of vanished buildings create a rare legal-to-explore ghost-of-a-resort landscape.
Rapid City, SD
A movie theater has operated on this downtown site for generations, preserving an increasingly uncommon piece of small-city cinema history. Its old auditorium and long entertainment history make it a worthwhile architectural stop in Rapid City's historic core.
Homosassa, FL
Old Florida attraction with an underwater observatory and the state's long-resident hippo, Lu.
Ellinwood, KS
Passages beneath downtown Ellinwood preserve remnants of underground storefronts, storage spaces, bath facilities, and later Prohibition-era stories. Tours are scheduled rather than freely accessible, and some sections remain beneath active private buildings.
