Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This lighthouse was witness to the end of WWII hostilities and now collects creepy cairns.

This lakeside tower is the third attempt at getting a tourist destination to stick on the spot.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

One of the oldest cemeteries in Vermont is the final resting place of soldiers, politicians, and a famous author.

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

A war memorial that appears to ascend from its forested setting.

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

A sign marks the location of an 18th-century sawmill allegedly owned by a wizard who employed Satanic imps.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The original Uncle Sam was actually a New York meatpacker who is buried under this historic grave.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A small burial ground honoring Native American veterans of the Revolutionary War.

The gravestones in this historic cemetery are carved with mysterious faces.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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