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The largest living museum in the Northeast recreates life from the Early Republic period complete with costumed historians and reenactors.

This historic psychiatric hospital is haunted by its chilling past.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

An inn older than the Witch Trials.

Taxidermy reptiles and rodents put on quite the show at this local history museum.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

Interactive museum complete with costumed re-enactors and the only known surviving chest from the Boston Tea Party.

This historic Victorian mansion is allegedly so haunted that a signed waiver is required to enter.

This Massachusetts home was the first to have a telephone line and its own phone number: 1.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

This cave was once thought to be a hiding place for the devil.

This unassuming Massachusetts residence was built with a trap door to hide escapees on the Underground Railroad.

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

A monument to the Mohawk people stands along an old Native American trade route.

Each August, one of the largest religious (and food) celebrations in the country is held in Boston.

The proud hometown of an American legend has honored their favorite son with what seems to be a gravestone.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.