The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

Herman Melville wrote 'Moby Dick' in this landmark 18th-century house surrounded by farmland.

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

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

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

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

Want to build a wind turbine? Secede from the nation.

This is the house that spite built.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.