This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

An unexpected Easter egg lurks in the background of a cherub wall relief at the Breakers mansion.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

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

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.