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

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

A Yale University president wears full samurai garb in one of America’s oldest cemeteries.

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

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

A parade of antique steeds offers a quirky ride through history.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

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

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

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