This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

Lake Champlain Bridge, the recently demolished and rebuilt bridge where they filmed "What Lies Beneath".

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

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

Beautiful natural falls where Satan once ruined a pot of beans.

The strange, ritualistic-seeming 100+ year old basement of a New Hampshire undergrad society.

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

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

This charming woodland trail is peppered with poetry.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.