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.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

A war memorial that appears to ascend from its forested setting.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

At the western edge of Palm Springs, a rugged desert canyon trail leads to a waterfall at the base of the San Jacinto Mountains.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

Explore the wide world of desert plants at this unique Palm Springs botanical garden.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

One of the largest wooden ships ever built is honored by a steel sculpture evoking her once-superlative scale.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Legendary frontman of the Doors looms in this giant mural by famed Venice muralist, Rip Cronk.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

A three-story, three-dimensional hobo clown in a tutu welcomes CVS shoppers.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.