A statue honors the children who fought Nazis in Poland.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

"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."

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

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

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

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

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans' graves.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.