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

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

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

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

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

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

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

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

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

The oldest bar in Missouri is hidden within a limestone brewery cellar more than 50 feet underground.

A castle inspired by medieval architecture is hidden in the woods of Connecticut.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

A bronze tribute to a legendary Californian, the self-proclaimed "Emperor of the United States."

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Bootleggers ran booze beneath this building before (and after) Route 66 appeared beside it.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.