The home of a famed utopian science fiction author has been preserved long after his predicted future in the year 2000.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

Mass Grave of 48 colonists killed in a raid by Native Americans and the French in 1704.

One man is on a singular quest to name an island after a famous hip-hop artist.

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

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This is the house that spite built.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

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

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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