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The Wedding Cake House.

Kennebunk, Maine

The Wedding Cake House

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

View from the parking lot

East Lyme, Connecticut

Book Barn

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The house with a hedge around it

Bangor, Maine

Stephen King's Former House

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

The Museum of Everyday Life

Glover, Vermont

The Museum of Everyday Life

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

The grave.

Washington, New Hampshire

Grave of Captain Jones's Leg

A gravestone marks where a man's lost limb was laid to rest.

Stump with tree rings. And snails. April 2019.

Rye, New Hampshire

Sunken Forests of Rye

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

Bread and Puppet Show, August 2009.

Glover, Vermont

Bread and Puppet Museum and Theater

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Hammond Castle Museum

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Museum

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Drawers and drawers of fonts ready to be used.

San Francisco, California

Arion Press and M & H Type

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

Bangor Police Museum

Bangor, Maine

Bangor Police Museum

This museum explores the history of policing and is also home to a very popular taxidermied duck.

World's End

Hingham, Massachusetts

World's End

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Georges Island

Hull, Massachusetts

Georges Island

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Spectacle Island

Quincy, Massachusetts

Spectacle Island

Solar powered Spectacle Island features all-green facilities.

Spectacle Island Sea Glass Beaches

Quincy, Massachusetts

Spectacle Island Sea Glass Beaches

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Graffiti Rock

Quincy, Massachusetts

Quincy Quarries

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Rainbow Swash

Boston, Massachusetts

Rainbow Swash

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

Faneuil Hall Weathervane

Boston, Massachusetts

Faneuil Hall Weathervane

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Faneuil Hall

Boston, Massachusetts

Faneuil Hall

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Union Oyster House

Boston, Massachusetts

Union Oyster House

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Worcester Common Burial Ground

Worcester, Massachusetts

Worcester Common Burial Ground

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

Brattle Book Shop.

Boston, Massachusetts

Brattle Book Shop

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The Earl of Sandwich
Permanently Closed

Boston, Massachusetts

The Earl of Sandwich

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Edgar Allan Poe Square

Boston, Massachusetts

Edgar Allan Poe Square

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

Aerial shot of the field

Lincoln, Massachusetts

Ponyhenge

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

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