When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The world's largest rotating world.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

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

The biggest apple in all of New England stands 10 feet tall and weighs over 1,000 pounds.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

The oldest headstone in Connecticut.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

In a Connecticut park, a statue pays tribute to the Indigenous people of this land.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

This statue honoring the most decorated dog of World War I stands in a Connecticut park.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.