Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

In the middle of a New England forest sit the crumbling ruins of World War II-era ammunition storage bunkers.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."