Worcester, Massachusetts
Higgins Armory Museum
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
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Worcester, Massachusetts
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
Québec City, Québec
This former prison now houses a lovely library devoted to Quebec's oft-maligned English-speaking history.
Québec City, Québec
This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.
Québec City, Québec
A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.
Avon, Connecticut
This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.
Boston, Massachusetts
The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.
Durango, Colorado
This spectacular track has run continuously since 1882.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.
Aquinnah, Massachusetts
Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.
Yarmouth, Massachusetts
This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.
Eastham, Massachusetts
The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.
Dennis, Massachusetts
The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.
Jonesport, Maine
An elderly widow still operates the incredibly detailed model railroad she and her husband built by hand.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Bangor, Maine
This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”
Swans Island, Maine
This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.
Union, Connecticut
This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.
Waterford, Connecticut
Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.
Thiells, New York
Decades after testing the polio vaccine on unwitting patients, this historic mental hospital sits in ruin.
Laurel, Maryland
This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.