Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

"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."

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

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

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

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.

She stares out across six lanes of traffic, clutching a musket and infant with determination.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

An eerie, decaying ghost town destined to fade into the forest.

This one-room cabin where the young colonel slept during the French and Indian War.

Historic home of America's sweetheart sharpshooter, Annie Oakley.

Once America's tallest structure, now a Baltimore landmark.

Rediscovered after a century, the father of the American Navy was reinterred in something dredged up from Davy Jones' Locker.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

The longest escalator in the Western Hemisphere takes over three minutes to ride down.