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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

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

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.

Infamous marsh filled with toxic waste, World War II-era London rubble, and dead mobsters galore.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.