Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Brussels' favorite peeing boy has a sister.

A little sculpture with a large wardrobe.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

A vast collection of rare books, manuscripts & extraordinary objects illustrating the history of medicine.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

The home of one of America's most wealthy industrialists is now a historic site that remembers a more decadent time in the country's history.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.

This lavish room at NYC's French Embassy is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of "the highest dinner ever held in New York" this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.