"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.

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

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

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.

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

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.