250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

"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 interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.

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

As state high-points-by-elevation go this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

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

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.