Don't have the dough to travel to England anymore since ... well, you know. Well, America is England's rebellious little kid so it should come as no surprise that anything they can do, we can do better. If not better, at least more commercially. What's that you say? You never knew America had her own Stonehenge? If you travel up to Salem, New Hampshire, you will visit a place that may be more popularly known as Mystery Hill, which is nearly guaranteed to thrill and amaze your children.

The name America's Stonehenge appears to have stuck despite the fact that the rock structures around the thirty acres of Mystery Hill look nothing like the instantly recognizable Stonehenge in England. The creation of America's Stonehenge remains something of a mystery, which is only deepened if the conventional wisdom, that it was built by a 19th century farmer, is true. Any person who constructed this Stonehenge would be almost as amazing as those who built England's version. Another legend says Mystery Hill was the work of an ancient North American civilization.

If you had to pick just one time of the year that will bring about assertions from your kids of the serious awesomeness of America's Stonehenge, it would be late June. June 21st, in fact, because it's the summer solstice. If you arrive at Mystery Hill that day and prop your kids up on the viewing platform, they will watch as the sun sets perfectly behind an extraordinarily sharp, pointed rock. The centerpiece monument at America's Stonehenge is a slab that has been determined to have been a sacrificial altar. Beneath this table lies a kind of tube that is connected to a cavernous oracle chamber. The amazing thing is that the tube was actually used for speaking through as a pre-electricity public address system.

Whether you call it Mystery Hill or America's Stonehenge, this incredible New Hampshire wonder is a place neither you nor the kids will forget.