Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

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

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

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.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The oldest place in Hartford is a cemetery with thousands of bodies stacked beneath the grass.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.