An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

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

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawai'i.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

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

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

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.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

This throwback amusement park is home to rides and unique storybook figures from the past.

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.

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

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

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.