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.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

One car at a time please.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A monument park dedicated to the influential Beat Generation author and poet, Jack Kerouac.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

These commemorative stones honor a young woman born in captivity.

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

A popular 19th-century natural landmark is now hidden within a sprawling forest.

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This rail trail culminates in a three-mile land bridge only accessible to cyclists and pedestrians.