This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

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

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

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

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

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, VT.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

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

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.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

An enormous cat made of recycled wood scraps.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.