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

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

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

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

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

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

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Hill-like structures formed by glaciers and sandy spits of land.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."