The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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.

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

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.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

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