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Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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 railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.

The Mysterious Witch Bonney, a haunted statue in an old industrial city.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.

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

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

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

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

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

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.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

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