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

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

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

"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."

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

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

A strange, heartwarming, decades-old declaration of love on a New Hampshire roadside.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.