The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

The small burial plot is located in a mall parking lot.

This historic church with a connection to "Uncle Sam" is now a fraternity house.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

This roadside dinosaur park offered up lumpy neon thunder lizards in the name of kitsch and education.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."