This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

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

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

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

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

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