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

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

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

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

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

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

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

Scene of the grisly murder of two Norwegian women in 1873.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

The largest glacial erratic boulder on Cape Cod.

Founded in 1788, this Rhode Island institution is the oldest operating general store in America.

A monument to the first person to sail around the world solo, nowhere close to where he was born, set sail, or landed.

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

Final resting place of the actress famed for her roles in Dark Shadows and Dario Argento's Suspiria.

Quirky castle designed by the American actor best known for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

The headquarters of the famous Yale society.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.