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

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

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

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

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.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.