The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

One of the oldest baseball fields in continuous use has been hosting games since 1878.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

A pig barn converted into one of the most eclectic residences in Nantucket.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

More than 200 unconventional musical instruments that anyone can play.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.