Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

"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."

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The oldest philatelic museum in the United States.

This penny stopped a bullet and saved a soldier’s life during the American Civil War.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

The Inuit kayak from Robert Peary's 1896 expedition to Greenland is now on display at a local library.

This mill played a key role in the region’s development and it is just one of ten along the east coast of the United States.