The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

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

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

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

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

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

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

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

This Annapolis home was built by one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Evidence of a long-ago crush remains scratched into the glass at this historic Maryland House.

George Washington once stopped by this house for dinner.

This one-room doctor's office has been moved twice, and now lives on as a museum.