Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

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

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

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

"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."

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

This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

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