This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

A forest wonderland caused by Burlington, Vermont's aggressive southwestern winds.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.