This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.

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

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

This 150 foot seven-tiered cascading waterfall is one of the hidden gems of the White Mountains.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The world's largest rotating world.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.