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The oldest existing one-room brick schoolhouse in Loudoun County.

The world's largest rotating world.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Its unique collection details the history of the state's svelte railroads.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

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

This rare polygonal meeting house is rumored to be built in a circle so that the devil has nowhere to hide.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

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

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

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

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

Maine's oldest diner also happens to win acclaim for its elevated comfort food.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.