Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.