This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.