The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

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

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

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

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

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

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.