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

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

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

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

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

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

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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.

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

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

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.