Places afink Wants to Go

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

A unique columnar residence built in the 19th century.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

This hidden labyrinth offers walkers some brief peace of mind.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

This is the house that spite built.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

This tower pays homage to a legendary Viking fort established in Massachusetts that never really existed.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

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

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

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

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

"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."

Row, row, row your pumpkin quickly down the stream.

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

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.