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

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

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

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.