Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

This old mill and former police station now present a world-class collection of Orthodox iconography.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

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

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Every plane, auto, and bicycle in this collection is kept in working order and are regularly demonstrated to the public.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

"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."

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.