The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

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

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

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

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.