Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

The wooden octagon in which Huckleberry Finn and A Connecticut Yankee were born can still be visited in upstate New York.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This area was once known for being a lawless haven for rough-and-tumble sailors, earning the maritime-themed nickname "the black sea."

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.