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

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

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

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

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

"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."

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

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

This castle constructed in 1928 was crafted from drawings of Lismore Castle in Ireland.

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

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.