The schoolhouse where Jesse Merwin, the inspiration for the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" character, once taught.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Pick up a kebab and a credenza at this unique combination furniture store and café.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

One sculptor's lifelong war game is the largest and longest running miniature campaign in history.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

The only American museum exclusively dedicated to the exhibition of gloves.

Take a trip back to the 1950s and the heyday of the road trip along Historic Route 20.

Tucked away on the second floor of a small town library is one of the great private Victorian taxidermy collections looking today very much like it did in 1909.

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

A man used his Civil War-era fortune to build this sanctuary in memory of his wife.

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

This stained glass window designed by Tiffany Studios is hidden behind the circulation desk of a public library.