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

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

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

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"

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

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

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

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.