Easton, Massachusetts
Simpson Spring
The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.
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Easton, Massachusetts
The oldest independent bottling plant in America was built directly over an ancient spring — and famously rejected Coca-Cola.
San Antonio, Texas
A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.
North Andover, Massachusetts
The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.
Newburyport, Massachusetts
A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.
Hampton, New Hampshire
A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.
York, Maine
The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.
Manchester, Maine
A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.
Newry, Maine
A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.
Norway, Maine
This 90-year-old building is home to possibly the most New Englandy social club in existence.
Poland, Maine
This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.
Weston, Massachusetts
This historic Massachusetts tavern played a critical role in the start of the American Revolution.
Lincoln, New Hampshire
A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
Groton, Massachusetts
On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.
West Orange, New Jersey
Take a step into the workshop where Edison and his employees revolutionized the world.
Dennis, Massachusetts
This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.
Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.
Holyoke, Massachusetts
A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.
Petersham, Massachusetts
All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.
Chicago, Illinois
A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.
Truro, Massachusetts
This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.
Adams, Massachusetts
Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.
Yarmouth, Maine
The world's largest rotating world.