Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The world's longest known cave system.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

A museum dedicated to the alleged Roswell Incident.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.