A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

This strangely amalgamated museum explores the history of the Timex clock company as well as archaeology.

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

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

A pair of 19th-century granite markers symbolically record where the state boundaries of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania intersect.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Outside a small brewery, a Gothic fountain that once provided water to thirsty horses.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

Now the final resting place of prominent artists and musicians, it was originally founded to separate the rich from the poor in death.

World's largest herd of white deer populate a former U.S. Army depot.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

This oversize piece of novelty cookware once cooked the largest pancake in the world.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

This unique creation was made by the largest manufacturer of Christmas bulbs in 1946 to honor those returning from World War II.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

A tiny one-room church built after one man's prayer for healing was answered.