Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

One of the oldest carousels in the United States is still running in the coastal village of Watch Hill.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

A local prank turned town icon.

This breathtaking monastery was established by Saint Benedict himself 1,500 years ago.

A mushroom-shaped outcropping that has come to be the symbol for an entire town.

The glowing blue Nymphaeum of Emperor Tiberius.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.