New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The last remaining attraction from Paragon Park.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

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

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

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

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

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

A comic book store got the road by its shop officially renamed after Superman's girlfriend.

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

The world's only surviving heavy cruiser has a haunting history.

This little-known rival to the Library of Congress houses one of the largest collections of pre-1876 American books, newspapers, and manuscripts.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

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

The homestead of American patriot John Adams.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.