The second-largest (of only two in the world) large particle collider is the underdog of experimental physics.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

A tiny village in Upstate New York ushered in the precursor to drive-in movies.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A beautiful multicolored mound formed by the mineral deposits of the Orenda Spring.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

A mysterious echo seems to defy the laws of acoustics.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.