New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

A Circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This haunting tombstone comes complete with a heartbreaking story of love and loss.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.