Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site

This brick row house in Philadelphia is the only surviving residence of writer Edgar Allan Poe from his most productive years, when he lived in the city in the early 1840s. Now preserved by the National Park Service, its sparsely furnished rooms and shadowy cellar evoke the atmosphere of his tales of horror and detection, several of which he wrote nearby. A neighboring building holds exhibits on his life, career, and influence, along with a reading room. A statue of a raven at the entrance nods to his most famous poem.