Drummond, Montana
Garnet, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
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Drummond, Montana
This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.
Stanley, Idaho
See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.
Orchard, Colorado
In the early 1900s, hundreds of Black Americans found opportunity in this now-abandoned rural community.
Bodfish, California
This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.
Hancock, Vermont
An ancient glacial pothole waterfall in the heart of the Green Mountains.
Rutland, Vermont
A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.
Stillwater, New York
A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.
Schenectady, New York
The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.
Schenectady, New York
This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.
Bennington, Vermont
One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.
Sandwich, Massachusetts
Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.
Sleepy Hollow, New York
The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.
Ticonderoga, New York
A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.
Fair Haven, Vermont
Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.
Whitehall, New York
An impressive Sasquatch statue marks the spot of a fated Bigfoot encounter that changed a community.
Lake George, New York
Of all the unique artifacts inside this library, a mummified hand stands out among the others.
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.
Wilton, New York
This picturesque cottage was the site of Ulysses S. Grant’s final and perhaps most important campaign.
Ballston Spa, New York
The birthplace of the alleged inventor of baseball.
Troy, New York
The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.
Cohoes, New York
A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.
Troy, New York
This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.
Menands, New York
The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.