At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

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.

This stunning Connecticut mansion is actually just a one-room-deep hoax.

A beautiful Gilded Age hotel in the White Mountains with surprising diplomatic history.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the former home of the second Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.