This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This historic hotel was once home to Henry David Thoreau and rumored to be haunted by ghosts of fallen soldiers from the American Revolution.

A largely forgotten and touching neoclassical marble fountain overlooking a bear mound effigy.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

This location holds the truth to what truly happened that faithful night.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

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

The Wright Tavern is possibly the most important building in Concord Massachusetts to the American Revolution.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

"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."

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.