A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

A daybeacon pyramid is about all that's left of this island that is said to have sunk due to a pirate's curse.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

All that remains of the Whittall mansion are the ruins of the formal garden and its pergola, dedicated to the late Matthew J. Whittall by his widow.

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

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

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This decrepit abandoned building is made all the more eerie by its dark history.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Oldest church in the United States that is still in continuous use.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

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

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.