Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hammond Castle Museum
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
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Gloucester, Massachusetts
An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.
Gloucester, Massachusetts
A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.
Rutland, Massachusetts
The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.
New York, New York
A dilapidated dock tells the story of Titanic’s missed arrival.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.
Madison, New Hampshire
A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.
Jackson, New Hampshire
This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.
Stowe, Vermont
The highest peak in the state of Vermont has some interesting features.
Keeseville, New York
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."
Clinton, Massachusetts
This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Sheffield, Massachusetts
The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.
Dummerston, Vermont
Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.
Dummerston, Vermont
The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.
Amherst, Massachusetts
One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.
Wassaic, New York
These conical kilns measure an impressive 30 feet in diameter, and were once used to produce charcoal for a local blast furnace.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Farmington, Pennsylvania
This historic furnace was once used to produce cannonballs during the Civil War.