This delicate museum is devoted to the art and industry that once supported Cape Cod's oldest town.

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

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

"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."

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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.

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

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.