Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The abandoned palace stands as a wounded but proud beacon of Afghan hope.

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

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 lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

This giant monument of the RCA mascot is a beloved fixture in Albany, New York.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

Fossilized sea bottom and lime quarry.

A monument to the military service of America's greatest traitor refuses to even name him.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.