The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

This abandoned radar station from the Cold War era now only broadcasts a seriously ominous air of isolation.

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

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

"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 cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

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

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