This statue commemorates the importance of hat manufacturing to Danbury, once known as the "Hat City of the World."

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

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

This enormous abandoned factory is now a makeshift graffiti gallery.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This monument to a veteran of the Mexican-American War is one of only two in Manhattan that serve as an actual mausoleum.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

A working monastery hidden away in Brooklyn once abutted the location of a former inebriate's home.

A small part of lower Manhattan is actually made from a bit of England.

Site of an escape, ten murders, and some scalpings.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The home of an antique carousel still in operation.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A monument to the winner of the 1946 Boston Marathon, Greek runner Stylianos Kyriakides.