New York, New York
Crabs of Cleopatra’s Needle
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
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New York, New York
Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.
Graniteville, Vermont
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.
Barre, Vermont
This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.
St. Johnsbury, Vermont
A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.
Glover, Vermont
Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.
Montpelier, Vermont
Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.
Waterbury, Vermont
The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.
Burlington, Vermont
Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.
Stowe, Vermont
This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.
Orchard Park, New York
A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.
Baltimore, Maryland
Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
East Haddam, Connecticut
This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.
Rochester, New York
An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.
Palmyra, New York
A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.