Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

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

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

"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."

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

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

Narrowest house in Boston.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

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

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

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.