Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

The monumental steeple on Amherst College's campus has no church attached to it.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

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

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

"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."

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

A strange mark in the stone fence of a cemetery fabled to have been made by the Devil himself.