An office built to look like a giant basket.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

P-town goes wild for the malassadas at this 87-year-old institution.

The first transatlantic wireless communication between the U.S. and Europe took place here in 1903.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

A reversed traffic signal that was once violently misinterpreted as a statement on British-Irish relations.

The final resting place of Harriet Tubman and other famous historical figures.