This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Some big-name visitors have patronized this small-town library named for an oil man's daughter.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

This 1,700-pound edible sculpture is way better than your average chocolate mousse.

The “Grand Canyon of Maine” is a three-mile gorge full of striking geological features.

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.

Who knew the Devil's domain was a hot spot for tubing?

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This giant rock arrived at this quiet park thousands of years ago on the back of a massive glacier.

Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

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

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

Famed activist Hellen Keller was involved in the operation and administration of this vacation home for blind women starting in the early 20th century.

Adherence to strict Jewish laws is required to enter this ultra-conservative New York village.

The best revenge is a five-tiered layer cake of a dwelling.

A ruined mansion hidden in the woods of the Hudson Valley, home of a tragically doomed romance.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.