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.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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 inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

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

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

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

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

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

Norway's oldest cathedral still in use.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The burning of this 12th-century church kicked off a campaign of Norwegian Black Metal terror.