Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

This tiny church near Sleepy Hollow contains Henri Matisse's last work, a rose window, and nine windows by Marc Chagall.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

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

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories