This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

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

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

This last stalwart of the now-forgotten feminist restaurant movement has been serving food in an activist atmosphere since 1977.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

This grave marks the passing of a historic Jane Doe whose identity remains a mystery to this day.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.