Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

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

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

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

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as a graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

This 23-foot-tall bear stands amid the hustle and bustle of Hamad International Airport.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.