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.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The Old Man of the Mountain’s less-famous, but still beloved little brother is said to resemble a leader of the Abenaki tribe.

This cabin survived a landslide that killed its owners.

The massive Roman arch in New Hampshire that was meant to be a tomb.

Believed by many to be the oldest surviving public monument in the United States.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

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

The gravestone of the man who designed the plastic pink flamingo is adorned with his most famous creation.

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

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.