Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

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

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

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

A museum dedicated to antique toys, collectibles, and nostalgia.

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

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.