In a small Kentish seaside stands the former home of one of the greatest science-fiction writers.

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

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

The final resting place of one of Thomas Jefferson's formerly enslaved sons.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A stone marker memorializes the spot where the King broke up a street fight with a classic karate stance.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

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

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.