An obelisk marks the farmhouse where the founder of Mormonism was born.

3,200-square-foot mural inside Dartmouth Library depicts the history of America with images of human sacrifice, ancient gods, and other unspeakable terrors.

An artist sees trees as a medium for sculpture.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Small rustic cabin nested in the mountains of Killington, Vermont.

Who is this marble man, perpetually creeping up the steps of his own mausoleum?

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

This New England drive-in was built to straddle the border between two states.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

The official peace statue of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.

Pay homage to the quintessential P-town dive.

These three lighthouses played a fundamental role in the maritime life of Eastham.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.