This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

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

This is the house that spite built.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

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