The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Launch vegetables using oversized slingshots at this Fingerlakes winery's roadside attraction.

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

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

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

The last living thing to come out of the rubble after 9/11 is now a symbol of hope and resilience.

A plaque immortalizes the spot where the early American spy said his famous last words: "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

Hiroshima survivor on Riverside Drive.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

The preserved house of a jazz legend still echoes with his music.