From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

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

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The US Navy's only submarine museum is also home to the world's first nuclear submarine.