New England Road Trip

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

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

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

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

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

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

These etchings reveal the history of a long-gone quarantine site.

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

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

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

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

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.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

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

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

"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."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

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

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Cheap art and political theater in Vermont.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.