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

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

"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."

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

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

Over fifty whirling pools left by the glacial age.

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

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

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

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

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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