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Home to one of the world’s largest nutcracker collections and other historical curiosities.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

This oceanfront 1920s house museum offers visitors historic art and rare plants across five distinct ecosystems.

A walk-through general store display reveals how community once functioned in rural coastal America.

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

The Atlantis of Cape Cod reemerges during the lowest of tides.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Wood carving meets bird conservation at this museum showcasing the life's work of one man.

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

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

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

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.