This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

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

This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Small island science organization offers public the chance to participate in research.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Everyone's favorite neighbor is remembered fondly in this small-town church.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

The island home of an unlucky whaling captain whose story inspired a great American novel.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This is the sewer drain that was the inspiration for the opening scene of Stephen King’s classic novel “IT”.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

A relic of roadside lore and perhaps the first of its kind in North America.

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

The empty town of Scenic, South Dakota, is owned by a church in the Philippines.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.