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

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

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

"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."

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

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

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

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

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.