North Adams, Massachusetts
Hillside Cemetery
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
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North Adams, Massachusetts
This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.
Williamstown, Vermont
The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.
Ticonderoga, New York
A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Bennington, Vermont
The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."
Henniker, New Hampshire
Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Manchester, Vermont
An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.
Manchester, Vermont
Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.
Windsor, Vermont
This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.
Cavendish, Vermont
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
Crawfordville, Florida
One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.
Las Vegas, Nevada
A private Las Vegas horse ranch adorned with whimsical artwork.
Bunkerville, Nevada
Harder layers in colorful sandstone weather out as prominent “fins" and even more intricate and bizarre shapes.
Manitou Springs, Colorado
This enigmatic building features numerous architectural styles.
Clark County, Nevada
The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.
Warren Air Force Base, Wyoming
The same security that protects our nukes accidentally protected a gentle herd of antelope.
Cañon City, Colorado
This 19th century jail was mainly used to incarcerate the drunk and disorderly.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado
Air Force Academy Chapel made of 100 identical tetrahedrons works to inspire those of all religions.
Rye, Colorado
The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.
Chino Hills, California
A shockingly detailed small scale recreation of the temples of Abu Simbel.
Irwindale, California
Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.
Pomona, California
This graveyard is the eternal home of the residents of a vanished California town.