"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.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

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

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

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

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

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

This historic patch of real estate offers a glimpse of colonial Boston.

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

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

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

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

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

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

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.