The Victorian-era greenhouse is stuffed with tropical plants, and open 365 days a year.

A contemporary fresco movement illustrates the region's rich history.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Montreal's giant farmer's market is a foodie's best friend, especially in the winter months.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

The biggest museum dedicated to insects in North America, one of the largest in the world.

Despite its name this unique art piece was established to commemorate a tragic flood.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.