Troy, New York
Grave of Uncle Sam
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
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Troy, New York
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
Keene Valley, New York
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
Montague, Massachusetts
Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.
Thetford, Vermont
This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.
Brookfield, Vermont
One car at a time please.
Charlemont, Massachusetts
A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.
Albany, New York
The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.
Lake Placid, New York
This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Hancock, Vermont
An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.
Troy, New York
This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.
Schenectady, New York
The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Amsterdam, New York
This sprawling taxidermy collection celebrates the art and history of sport hunting.
Dorset, Vermont
This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.
Greenfield Center, New York
Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.
Granville, New York
Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.
Woking, England
An enormous alien invades Woking, England, as an homage to the H.G. Wells classic 'The War of the Worlds.'
Guilford Township, Indiana
One of the largest collections of merchandise from the famous British sci-fi show can be found smack in the middle of Indiana.
Castleton, Vermont
This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.
Speculator, New York
The great American road trip, but smaller.