University of New Hampshire holds the documentation and artifacts of local alien abductees.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

Final resting places of a husband and wife who became famous for their claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

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

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

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

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

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

"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."

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.