This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

It's said that this stone with its mysterious runic inscription is evidence of the Norse visiting Narragansett.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

The Lincoln Memorial has inspired many, even though a word on the inscription appears to be spelled incorrectly.

A brass and marble scale model of the solar system embedded in the concrete.

Home to the first child born to English colonists in North America, this colony mysteriously disappeared while waiting for supplies.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A stone record of five floods inside Liège’s cathedral.

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

Half-scale model of a historic ship in the children's section of Provincetown Public Library.

The New Bedford Whaling Museum in Massachusetts displays what it calls the world's largest ship model.