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Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

This massive boulder is either a unique rock formation created by glacial melt or a magic energy vortex.

On the second floor of a small town library is an homage to angling and memorial to a great local fisherman.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

Legs Inn provides Polish food, a cornucopia of Odawa artwork, wood carvings, and mounted deer heads.

There's more contention than one might expect from cherry pie pans.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Reforestation in action is the main attraction in this abandoned quarry.

The remains of what was once the world's steepest passenger funicular.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.