Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

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

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

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A small museum packed with specimens from important fossil sites and minerals from historical pegmatite quarries.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?