An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

Preserving the memory of the narrow railroads that once crisscrossed the state of Maine.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

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

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Explore the dark underground corridors of this graffiti-covered former military fortification.

This plot of old-growth forest is the largest surviving remnant of New York City's original woodland.

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

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

Forgotten and then destroyed by fire, this was once one of the largest saltwater swimming pools in the world.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Beneath the southern end of the Golden Gate Bridge is the “Gibraltar of the West Coast,” a fort built to protect the San Francisco Bay from naval attack.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.