From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

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

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

Hidden behind a Target are pillows of cooled lava that formed at the bottom of a deep lake in the Mesozoic Era.

A large camera obscura, constructed entirely from digitally fabricated components.

Underground tunnels remain beneath this abandoned mental asylum.

Abandoned Coast Artillery fort now serves as graffiti canvas and sightseeing vantage point.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

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

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

A miniature village lies nearly forgotten in the forest by the side of a major highway.

An abandoned 146-acre summer resort slowly being reclaimed by nature.

Inside a state forest, the forgotten remains of a Cold War defensive installation.

The final resting place of one member of the Amistad slave revolt who never made it back home.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.

The remnants of a 19th-century ironmaking complex hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.