The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

The grave of a champion Thoroughbred hides within the former presidential estate.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A lone tower rises above the cliffs in a city park, offering fantastic views of the Connecticut landscape.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

This beautiful, historic church looks like something out of a simpler past.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.