Lake George, New York
Bloody Pond
This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.
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Lake George, New York
This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.
Woodstock, Vermont
An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.
Boothbay, Maine
A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.
Verona Island, Maine
The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.
Newry, Maine
A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.
Mount Desert, Maine
A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.
Deer Isle, Maine
Sculptures, jams, and the wild west collide at this folksy retreat.
Hancock, Maine
The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Fairfield, Maine
This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.
Kitakyushu, Japan
An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.
Ishinomaki, Japan
On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.
Isle of Staffa, Scotland
This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.
New York, New York
A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.
Avery Island, Louisiana
For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.
New Orleans, Louisiana
If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?
New Orleans, Louisiana
By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.
New Orleans, Louisiana
In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.