This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

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

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

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

A red brick monolith is all that remains of New England’s first commercial brickyard.

250-year-old farm now features sculptures, a petting zoo and a hippy-bazaar.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

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

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

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

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.

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.