On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Cryptid lake monster honored with its own monument.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

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

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

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.

The world's largest rotating world.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

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

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

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

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

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

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

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.