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

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

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

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

This obscene artwork on the side of a newspaper office pokes fun at a rival paper's former editor-in-chief.

This curious sculpture represents the perseverance needed to take to the skies.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.