According to folklore, Vermont's slanted windows were installed to keep witches from flying into the house.

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

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

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

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A railroad magnate's replica village has become home to a genetic seed bank for rare breeds of livestock.

The first ever diner included on the National Register of Historic Places is famous for its custard French toast.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.

A desiccated merman and a walrus penis bone are among the oddities in this eclectic collection of shipwreck treasures.

Enchanting gardens surround a derelict mansion, all hidden in plain sight behind a stone wall.

Celebrating an art form with a collection of puppets from all over the world.