The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

These light, hollow rolls have been linked to Acadia National Park since the 1890s.

According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

The 5.5-mile ring of steel posts around the Capitol Building is one of the largest (and most uniform) of its kind in the world.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

A derelict bit of infrastructure from the canal that once ran through D.C. is landlocked in the heart of the city.

Washington's iconic carousel has a nice piece of Civil Rights history.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.

The privately owned cemetery that holds room for Washington's finest when they step down from life.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

There are eight natural springs around town, each with a slightly different taste.