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

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

A former copper mine which became a truly unsuccessful prison.

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

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world's most famous paranormal investigators.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

Connecticut's shot tower is near the end of its life.

The Connecticut village named for its subterranean thunder.

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

The cave where two British judges hid in exile after sentencing the king to death.

These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.

This "thrice-cursed" island is allegedly home to Captain Kidd's lost treasure.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

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

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

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

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

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

On a side street near the interstate is the building where the famous anarchist once owned an ice cream parlor.