See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.

A tribute to Rhode Island's state bird, a domesticated chicken breed that dominated the 19th-century poultry industry.

Now a retreat center for the faithful, it once provided training for clergy—but it began as a farm owned by a famed financier and his opera singer wife, who built a surprise in the backyard.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

An art installation commemorates journalist Nellie Bly's undercover reporting inside a New York asylum.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

This unique piece of land is home to a patented artificial lake and the remains of an old Girl Scout camp.

Visit a church sculpted from hardened lava.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

A major spiritual gathering place in central Maine since the mid-1800s.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

The "Key of Keys" for Washington, D.C. and the apocryphal landing place for the military campaign that started George Washington's career is now at the bottom of a well.

Two stone markers honor the Nipmuc people who first settled here millennia ago.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.