Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

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

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

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

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Ancestral Puebloan ruins, natural arches, and box canyons abound in this seldom-visited corner of Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.