This 3,500 pound obelisk was constructed with more than 1,000 reclaimed guns.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

A simple Colonial home with a past haunted by death and madness.

Oldest synagogue in the United States.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This Rhode Island mansion was a stand-in for the exteriors of Collinwood in the original "Dark Shadows" series.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

Silverware in the sidewalk outside a grocery store cements this neighborhood’s Italian culinary history.

Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

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

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

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

These boots are made for selfies.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.