Places Added by Ophelia Ravenia

The train collection of an eccentric New England seafood mogul is now a National Historical Site.

Grand architectural relics gain a new life in this Pennsylvania warehouse.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.

Abandoned blast furnaces are an enduring reminder of Scranton's once booming iron business.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

A former infectious disease laboratory chronicles how tuberculosis shaped a village nestled in the Adirondacks.

Money may not grow on trees, but it can be dispensed by one.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

A memorial to a dog that inspired rioting in the streets of London.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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