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Milford, New Hampshire

Caroline Cutter Headstone

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

Obelisk and Fence

Wilton, New Hampshire

Captain Sam Greele Monument

A small obelisk marks the spot where Captain Sam Greele was killed by a falling tree.

William G. Bruce Grave

Mont Vernon, New Hampshire

William G. Bruce's Grave

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

Lower purgatory falls

Lyndeborough, New Hampshire

Purgatory Falls

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

Parrish Shoes Sign

Keene, New Hampshire

Parrish Shoes Sign

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Yankee Siege Giant Mace

Greenfield, New Hampshire

Yankee Siege Trebuchet

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

The old Western store
Permanently Closed

Schroon Lake, New York

Frontier Town

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Star Trek Original Series Set Tour.

Ticonderoga, New York

Star Trek Original Series Set Tour

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

The Pember Museum

Granville, New York

The Pember Museum

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

Bloody Pond

Lake George, New York

Bloody Pond

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

The orange roof is still shining, with the iconic weathervane standing tall.
Permanently Closed

Lake George, New York

The Last Howard Johnson's

All that remains of the once-booming chain is a single orange-roofed restaurant.

The Mystery Spot, hidden in plain sight.

Lake George, New York

Lake George Mystery Spot

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The Allen House is the larger of the two, built in 1867.

Fair Haven, Vermont

Vermont's Marble Mansions

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

Harmonic Bridge

North Adams, Massachusetts

Harmonic Bridge

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The exhibit.

North Adams, Massachusetts

Gunnar Schonbeck Exhibit

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

Natural Bridge State Park

North Adams, Massachusetts

Natural Bridge State Park

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Santa's Land

Putney, Vermont

Santa's Land

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

A marble wall inside the mine at Danby Quarry.

Danby, Vermont

Danby Quarry

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Naulakha

Dummerston, Vermont

Naulakha

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

A view of the flooded portion commonly used for skating

Dorset, Vermont

Freedlyville Quarry

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Lincoln Square

Bennington, Vermont

Lincoln Square

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

Mr. Barbo's grave.

Manchester, Vermont

Grave of Mr. Barbo

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

Grave of Josiah Spaulding

Dummerston, Vermont

Dummerston Vine

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Jennings Hall, a.k.a. Hill House

North Bennington, Vermont

Jennings Hall

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

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