"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."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

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.

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

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

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

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

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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