In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.