This 19th century granite fortification is one of the most well preserved forts in New England.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

The world's largest rotating world.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

The highest point in Maine is a grand gift to the state citizens that also happens to be one end of the Appalachian Trail.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

A way to take your secrets to someone else's grave.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.