The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

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

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"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."

Memorial dedicated to four citizens killed during a shooting spree prompted by a routine traffic stop.

A mere dot on the map in the great north woods is the first place in America to vote in Presidential elections.

The 92-foot-tall structure is based on the aircraft that carried the first Americans into space.

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

This store also houses a museum dedicated to the history of these small, historic community shops.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

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

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

Constructed from the ruins of a former glass factory, this park incorporates the old with the new.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.