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

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

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

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

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

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

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

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

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.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

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

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

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

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A 60-room castle constructed by a horse-racing heir.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.