Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

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

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.