This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

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

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.

An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

Near the summit of Mount Washington, a stone monument remembers a life lost to one of the mountain's infamous storms.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The national headquarters of the dowser’s society founded in 1961.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

The place where the great marine explorer first learned to work underwater is not where you'd expect.

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