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

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

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

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

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

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg's famous shark movie.

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

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Books you don’t need in a place you can’t find.

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

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

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

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

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

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

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

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

One of the earliest graveyards in the region.