Kerhonkson, New York
Gnome Chomsky
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.
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Kerhonkson, New York
"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.
Neversink, New York
The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.
Catskill, New York
An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.
Cornish, New Hampshire
The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
Cavendish, Vermont
The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.
Gilmanton, New Hampshire
Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Bellows Falls, Vermont
These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.
New Hartford, Connecticut
Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?
Farmington, Connecticut
These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.
Boston, Massachusetts
A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.
Boston, Massachusetts
A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
Rochester, Massachusetts
Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.
Glocester, Rhode Island
A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
New Haven, Connecticut
An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.
Danbury, Connecticut
This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
South Hadley, Massachusetts
One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.
Cheshire, Connecticut
This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.
Roxbury, Connecticut
The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.