Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

The once-abandoned 140-year-old hotel used in the movie "In Dreams."

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

Dispersed across 45-acres, 39 structures house a massive collection celebrating American Folk Art.

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

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

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

A giant toy jack made of numerous welded-together fire hydrants.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

This New England covered bridge is home to the tale of a jilted lover known to haunt the area.

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

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This museum preserves over-the-top masterpieces that once qualified artisans for membership into a medieval guild.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.