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

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

"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."

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

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

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Supposed Massachusetts Grave of a pre-Columbus Knight Templar.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

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

Antique gaffe kept in the basement of a small Vermont natural history museum.

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

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

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

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

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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