No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

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

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

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