A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

This is the house that spite built.

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

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

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

"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."

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

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

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

A humble reminder to Bedford’s past sits hidden in plain sight.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.