The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

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

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

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

Constructed in 1676, this stone memorial is believed to be the oldest veteran's memorial in the United States.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

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

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

Eco-friendly island mansion.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Charlie Smith was almost certainly not 137 years old when he died, but why let that get in the way of a great story?

The third tallest lighthouse in America once guided author Stephen Crane to safety.

A memorial to the United States's first wildlife refuge warden.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A historic presidential getaway on the continental United States' southernmost island.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.