The dairy farm in upstate New York where nearly half a million people gathered for three days of peace and music in 1969.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

Three gardens with toilets and urinals filled with bright flowers started as a protest against zoning rules.

A giant roll of mints marks the birthplace of one of America's most famous candy brands.

A castle built for love, and abandoned due to heartbreak.

The private island of Yale's elite Skull & Bones society is kind of a dump.

This tiny little island has, as the name says, just enough room for its single house.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

Intricate, eye-catching, award-winning rubber sculptures liven up this Pennsylvania town.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

The third-tallest lighthouse in the United States stands as a reminder of Atlantic City's early days.

Amazingly, this old machine within the Resorts Casino still functions.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

This 25-foot-tall gorilla made his way from the Wildwood boardwalk to a Pine Barrens gas station and deli.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

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