Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

A preserved trolley track that was transformed into a museum of transportation.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

Journey inside the bowels of this sperm whale sculpture.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

Designed to not only to represent the history of the local community but also, the future.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.