A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

A human attendant once directed car traffic from this structure before automated stoplights.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

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