This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

Try a classic Necco candy bar being resurrected in a small suburban shop.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

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

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

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

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

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.