The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This 1.5 million-gallon water tower inspired Stephen King while he was writing "It."

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

This Art Deco theater is the last remaining opera house in the “little Broadway of the North.”

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

The world's largest rotating world.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

The biggest apple in all of New England stands 10 feet tall and weighs over 1,000 pounds.

The oldest brick saltbox house in America.

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

This man's death led (indirectly) to Vermont's independence in 1777.

George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and Benjamin Franklin all slept at this humble inn.

The oldest headstone in Connecticut.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

One of America's first spies started out as a teacher in this little red one-room schoolhouse.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

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.