Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

Where Eunice Williams was murdered by natives, and where locals say her ghost still haunts.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

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

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

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This is the house that spite built.

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

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

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

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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.