Home to the only outdoor municipal elevator in the United States.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

Abandoned Italianate architecture on the coast of Maine.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

Believed by many to be the oldest surviving public monument in the United States.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Salute the leader of the proletariat.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

Monumental sculptures of Patrick Amiot, constructed from debris, detritus, and determination.

The magic's in the hole!

Spinning silently in the lobby of an Art Deco masterwork is a massive vintage model of the Earth.