Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

Thousands of American timepieces on display in the former clock-making capital of the country.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

The world's largest indoor go-kart racetrack is hiding in Connecticut.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

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

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

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

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world, this structure was built more than 800 years ago.

Ireland's most northerly island is hauntingly beautiful. Its lighthouse was the last glimpse of home for many Irish emigrants bound for the U.S.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

An Irish town has built a statue to a silent film actor simply thanks to the holidays he once spent there.

This cemetery overlooking the Benbulben rock formation is the final resting place of one of Ireland's most beloved poets.

This neon landmark has been posing this deadpan question to follicly-challenged Dubliners for over 50 years.

This ancient Irish tower could easily have stood in for Rapunzel's prison.