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Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This blue behemoth of a bear is a colorful homage to Brown University's mascot.

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

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

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

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

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

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

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

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

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

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

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

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

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