A once-booming railroad left abandoned next to the Quinnipiac River marshes now intersects with a hiking trail.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

British troops and Prohibition couldn’t stop this spot from becoming one of the United States' oldest continuously-run taverns.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Known as one of the most climbed mountains in the world, this barren peak is permanently bald thanks to an anti-wolf fire.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote the Jungle Book is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

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

Mary Rowlandson's kidnapping ordeal became one of the nation's first best-selling books.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

The gravestone of an eccentric Connecticut doctor features dinosaur tracks and a pair of fossil tree casts.

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

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

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.