This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

Where the English trapper who faked a First Nations identity bunked with beavers.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Why have you never heard of the second most popular tourist site in New York?

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