Places Edited by Willymjr

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

A unique work of art that was created without permission.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This once-booming Gold Rush town is now home to a herd of feral donkeys.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

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.

An architecturally unique lighthouse that had to be lifted up and moved to avoid falling in the sea.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.