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

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The final resting place of a man who claimed that he could tame even the mightiest of bears.

One was an astronomer who spent his life chasing solar eclipses, the other helped make Emily Dickinson famous.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

The owner of one of the oldest homes in Amherst had a unique request before the home could be turned into a museum.

The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

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

This indie movie theater is one of only three surviving Mayan-themed theaters designed by “Detroit’s greatest theater architect.”

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The site where chief Miantonomo of the Narraganset people was captured.

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

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The former location of a platform that allowed passengers to safely wait for the trolley.

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

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

Once the largest gravity dam in the world.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.