One of America's oldest private membership libraries was long one of New Haven's best kept secrets.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

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

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

This exhibit is devoted to the games and wonder that Hasbro has brought children worldwide.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

The oldest playground in America.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

In Gloucester, Massachussets, fishermen celebrate a successful year at sea by charging a lubed pole to capture an Italian flag.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

The hero of the women's suffrage movement birth home is now a museum dedicated to her legacy.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

Eat first, shop later at this eatery within an Asian grocer.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.