Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

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

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

A quiet memorial marks the spot where the victims of the Salem Witch Trials were executed.

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.

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

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

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

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Take a ride inside a former coal mine in Ashland, Pennsylvania.