The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Surprisingly aquamarine waters fill deep lakes formed at the end of the last ice age.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

A six-story treehouse offers spectacular views of New York's Finger Lakes region.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.