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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

Stolen goods adorn the organ at Old North Church.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This piece of peacetime naval wreckage memorializes the tragic sinking of the USS Maine--an event which sparked the Spanish-American war.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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

Haunted boulder in a front yard with a witch painted on it.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

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.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.