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

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Narrowest house in Boston.

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

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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

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

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

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

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

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

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

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

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

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

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.