Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

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.

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

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

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

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

A tiny monument to the classic American candy.

This is the house that spite built.

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

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.