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Tucked away in the forest, these giant wooden trolls delight visitors in Charlestown, Rhode Island.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

This Wall Street bar was once a hub of revolutionary activity where Washington famously bid farewell to his troops.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.