A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

It was founded by Ralph Nader to educate the public about an often-maligned area of law.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?