A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

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

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Eight whimsical acres of metal art.

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

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

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.