The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The tennis legend used this racket while breaking the race barrier and becoming the first Black man to win the US Open.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

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

A beacon atop a downtown building provides Bostonians with weather forecasts and baseball news.

The statue of John Harvard isn't actually John Harvard—or even, technically, the founder of the school.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.