A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This home is steeped in history from, George Washington to George Corwin, High Sheriff during the Salem Witch Trials.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.

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

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

The mighty room where the poet spent most of her life is available to rent for an hour or two.

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

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

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

"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."