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This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

One car at a time please.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.

This waterfront museum in Maine is dedicated to the history of the smoked-herring trade.

An agricultural research library housed in a former Odd Fellows Lodge.

These powerful, if squat, Canadian waterfalls flow in different directions depending on the time of day.

Steam engines and conveyor belts are remnants of a genius system left in the middle of the Maine woods.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

Largest institutional collection of tomb figures from Western Mexico in the United States.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.