A man-made island in scenic San Francisco Bay.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

Turns out you can see the world without ever leaving Maine.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

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

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

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

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

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

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

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

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.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.