Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

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

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

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

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

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.