19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

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

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

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

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

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

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

A mural of a boy making a phone call connects a southern Maine community to a town in Iraq.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

The house and graveyard used in the Stephen King spine-chiller.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

The eccentric mansion of one the most popular horror authors of modern times.

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

"Try not to knock anything over!"

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

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

"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."