The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

This replica of a historic fishing shack long dubbed the most painted building in America.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

This college campus garden is home to generations of award winning flowers.

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

This historic vessel on display in Massachusetts made a dozen scientific expeditions into the Arctic.

The colonial home of Paul Revere during the American Revolution.

Beneath its placid surface, one of New York City's primary sources of drinking water hides a haunted past.

A black sand beach where glacial fragments wash ashore and look like sparkling diamonds.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

A series of murals depict the evolution of plant life from the Precambrian to the modern day.

One of the two USPS mailboats left in service docks regularly at Weirs Beach, Bear Island, and other Lake Winnipesaukee islands to deliver their mail.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

This stone in Lexington honors a formerly enslaved man who fought during the American Revolution.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.

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

What was once a true peninsula has now been filled in, causing the water to recede and leaving many streetside "waterfronts" and landlocked "islands."