The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

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

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Former utopian colony based on the belief that the universe exists in a hollow sphere.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

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

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

A recreated sign from the movie Jumanji has become a makeshift tribute to the film's late star.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

An ancient cemetery with some historic bodies underfoot.

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A fictional town that was briefly brought to life before fading once again out of existence.

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.