An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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 short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

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

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.