The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

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

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

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

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

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

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

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

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

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

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

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

This whimsical outsider art wall holds tiny treasures donated by the local community.

A trove of tiny treasures hidden within a Florida park.

Decorative shell walls built in the 1940s sit atop an ancient midden created by the Calusa Native Americans.

Visitors to this shop will find fossils, minerals, meteorites, skeletons, oddities, and much more.

Ancient church constructed with a special wood that preserves prints from the past.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.