Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The world's largest rotating world.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

An abandoned gun-funded 19th century utopia.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This seemingly cursed monument is dedicated to one of Canada's great war heroes.

Soaring over the Niagara Whirlpool since 1916.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

Public outcry led to this bridge's unique character which celebrates a giant frog battle and also sewing.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

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

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.