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

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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

Shelves covered in dozens of coffee bean varieties fill this North End institution.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

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