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

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

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.

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

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

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

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

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

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 widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

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

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

A plaque marks the spot on the bridge where one of the first elephants in the U.S., Little Bet, was gunned down.

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

Only a shrine remains at the site of the catastrophic nightclub inferno that killed 100 Great White fans.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Off a hiking trail in Rhode Island stands a picturesque memorial to a long-forgotten war.

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