The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

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

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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.