New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The highest point in Connecticut was incorrectly memorialized before surveyors discovered the actual spot.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

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

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.