Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The childhood home of the meat inspector who would become the face of America.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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

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

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

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

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

"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 site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A portrait of the Charter Oak hangs in a frame made from the Charter Oak.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.