Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This American Sycamore was grown from seeds that accompanied the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

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.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

She become one of the first women to serve in the United States military by secretly dressing like a man.

Once a kitschy symbol for a gift shop, this 38-foot seahorse is now a staple roadside attraction.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

This Niagara Falls tourist trap is a world bright with neon and curiosities that will inspire love, hate, or a mixture of both.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.