A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

A restored historic movie theater is the perfect place for a regional film archive.

The only remaining historic maritime signal station in the United States.

A decidedly out of place statue memorializes the Blues Brothers characters at this water bottling plant.

A roadside park in eastern Maine first marked the halfway point between the equator and North Pole with a brass pin in 1896.

A century after his death, this covered bridge still calls to mind the plein air painter who loved it.

Accessible only by boat, this centuries-old island fort never saw troops or combat.

The world's oldest and largest museum of mass transit vehicles.

The largest tidal whirlpool in the Western Hemisphere.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

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

A giant concrete orb in far north Iceland marks the ever-shifting boundary.

Surrounded by ash fields in Iceland, an impossibly verdant valley looks like something out of a fairytale.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

This simple sailing boat is one of the oldest preserved fishing vessels of its kind in the world.

The platform atop this verdant volcano was built with the help of a royal elephant.