Newport, Rhode Island
Location of the First Gas Street Lamp
A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.
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Newport, Rhode Island
A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.
Providence, Rhode Island
Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.
Newport, Rhode Island
You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.
Providence, Rhode Island
A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.
Newport, Rhode Island
The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.
Providence, Rhode Island
Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.
Providence, Rhode Island
Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.
Exeter, Rhode Island
The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."
Bristol, Rhode Island
The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.
Providence, Rhode Island
Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.
Bensalem, Pennsylvania
The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.
Allentown, Pennsylvania
The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.