Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This 19th-century Hamptons windmill was once home to modernist painter Agnes Pelton.

The first commercial nuclear power plant constructed on Long Island.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

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

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

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

G.V. Black, the Father of Modern Dentistry, keeps an eternal eye on Chicagoan’s teeth from his perch in Lincoln Park.

A goddess-topped water fountain in Chicago was created thanks to the dreams of a thirsty newsboy.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

This landmark of the Chicago silent film industry may not be in the picture business anymore but it still stands proudly.