This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

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

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

"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."

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

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

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

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

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

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

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

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

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

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.