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

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A morbid piece of memorabilia from the most famous shipwreck in current history is just one of the many poignant artifacts in this Canadian museum's collection.

Built for television, this statue now serves as an unlikely memorial to a fireman who died on 9/11.

A quarter mile off the coastal tip of Maine you'll find the "Beloved Island" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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.

"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."

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

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

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.