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."

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

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

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

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

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

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

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"