The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

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

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

This giant Massachusetts sycamore is said to hold the dubious distinction of being the "widest tree East of the Mississippi!"

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

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

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

A classic roadside attraction on Vermont's historic Route 5.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

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

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, VT.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

A bygone village occupation lives on via this quaint public chalkboard.