Residing quietly in suburban Maryland, this tree has a star-powered history and was grown from a seed that journeyed to space on Apollo 14.

The oldest surviving one-room schoolhouse in Montgomery County, Maryland.

The only public school for Black children in the region from 1895-1936.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

A shoreline exhibit describing the disastrous first attempt by the French to colonize North America.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

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

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

This unusual building straddles two countries.