America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Enjoy egg rolls and live music in a converted bank vault.

This beach-side arcade is believed to be the oldest penny arcade in America.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

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

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

A 12,000-year-old bog boasting rare plants and fauna.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

The largest collection of historic military firearms in the United States.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This modern medieval weapon of war was built to toss pumpkins.