Hartford, Connecticut
Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
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Hartford, Connecticut
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.
Rhinebeck, New York
What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.
Flanders, New York
A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.
New Haven, Connecticut
Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.
Staten Island, New York
During the American Revolution, this mansion hosted failed peace talks between the British and Americans.
Staten Island, New York
This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.
Norwalk, Connecticut
Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."
Staten Island, New York
The pioneering photographer's prints are immortalized inside her childhood home.
Mamaroneck, New York
The "Skinny House" is made from scrap, salvage, and a neighbor’s kindness.
New York, New York
The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.
New York, New York
The oldest house in Manhattan is now a museum that remembers the home's sordid history of scandals, vice-presidents, and ghosts.
Amityville, New York
The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.
New York, New York
This Upper East Side apartment co-op was designed as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Greenville, Maine
The debris forms a solemn memorial to those who died in a 1963 accident.
Buffalo, New York
A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.
Montpelier, Vermont
A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.
Washington, D.C.
A bas relief commemorates the "Nuns of the Battlefield" who cared for soldiers on both sides of the conflict.
Washington, D.C.
One of the most influential presidents in U.S. history wanted only this plain, elegant monument as his lasting memorial.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.
Danvers, Massachusetts
This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.
New York, New York
Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.
New York, New York
This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.