One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

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

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

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

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

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

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

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

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

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

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

The ruins of an abandoned 18th-century town that is slowly being reclaimed by the forest.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.