The second-oldest garden cemetery in the U.S. was also a college brainstorm spot of Stephen King.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

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

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

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.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

The Bucyrus-Erie model 1850B electric shovel, or "Big Brutus," the largest existing electric shovel in the world.

This unusually circular centenarian barn became a Route 66 icon.

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.