One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

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 former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.