This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

The dress young Pierce wore prior to his breeching ceremony in the early 1800s is now on display for all to see.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

This site was once the largest ski jump tower in the world.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.