One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

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

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

"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."

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

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.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

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

This small-town library was the first in the world to be entirely supported by taxation.

A treasure trove of rare and fine fabrics from around the world.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

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

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground