This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Dozens of playful sculptures blanket these 200 rolling acres of farmland in an ode to art and landscape.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.