It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

A bridge commemorating the actor's legacy and his Terryville roots.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

This roadside wonder is as mysterious as it is beloved.

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

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.