You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This humble star-gazing center touts itself as the "Birthplace of American Astronomy."

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

A suspended garden, now gone, once hung in the middle of this abandoned church.