According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

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

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

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

Retirement home where the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West passed away.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.