An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

"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."

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

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.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

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

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

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

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

A serene plaza that commemorates one of the Granite State's most iconic figures.

One of 100 “Whaling Wall" murals painted in 13 different countries by a renowned marine life artist.

A town wears its heart on the sleeve of a smiling girl, arms flung wide open in a cheerful greeting for all who encounter her.

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.