This scout retreat, still in use today, was the filming location for the original “Friday the 13th” film.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

The home of one of America's most beloved fictional characters has become a real world landmark.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A controversial magical figure is hidden within a diorama of the city.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

Here be dragons.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.