An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

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

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

The only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's revolutionary car.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Massive still life just off the highway in Kansas.

A Kansas grassroots sculptor decorates the local roadways with his sculptures made from found objects.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

Home of mutant livestock.