Massachusetts

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

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

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

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

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

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

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

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

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

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

Oldest house in downtown Boston was once the home of Paul Revere.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

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

"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."

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.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

This is the house that spite built.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

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

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

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

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

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

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

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