Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Scary metal statues adorn some of the signature buildings of Burlington, Vermont.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruous in rural Vermont.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Built in 1821 using rooms from another estate, the Phillips House is the only historic home on scenic Chestnut Street open to the public.

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

A simple but powerful tribute to the 20 victims of the 1692 witch trials.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

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

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

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.

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.