This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

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

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

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

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

This sculpture commemorates the first instance of an American president pardoning a turkey.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

Decades before the Salem Witch Trials, two Connecticut women were executed for alleged witchcraft.

Dr. Henry Cogswell hoped that his elaborate drinking fountains would dissuade people from drinking alcohol.

A single room pays homage to the prodigious achievements of the 30th President of the United States.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.