Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.

This Connecticut ferry has been operating in some form since 1655.

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

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A home that witnessed Civil War combat on the Sunken Road has the battle scars to prove it.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

An intricately designed junk art house with four extravagant junk art cars hidden in the suburbs.

The second oldest and longest of Delaware's three covered bridges.

The smallest and oldest covered bridge in Delaware.

The highest point in Delaware is located under a trailer so this marker across the street will have to do.

The longest covered bridge in Delaware.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Once a strategically imperative naval base, portions of this Bermuda dock complex now serve cruise ships.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

The final resting place of a wealthy landowner who helped create the largest public park in Western Massachusetts.

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

The final residence of an educator, civil rights leader, and presidential advisor was also the first headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women.

Housing the National Women's Party since 1929, this historic house is now a monument to the fight for gender equality.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.