The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

"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."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

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