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.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

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

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

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Welcome sign announcing Haverhill, MA, as the birthplace of horror rocker/artist/director Rob Zombie.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.