Places Edited by EB Savage

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The highest point in the state of New Hampshire, and while unlikely "the worst weather in the world," it sure seems that way to hikers.

Church in Manhattan holds the bloody sock of Padre Pio, among with many other unusual relics.

At Chicago's revered Field Museum, visitors are invited to learn about and literally explore DNA.

Light bulbs, scrap wood, and tinfoil comprise this homemade throne of the gods.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

A museum dedicated to "science, history and the arts" little changed since 1915.

These pretty kitties killed and ate as many as 135 railway workers.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

The mansion home of author Edith Wharton.

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

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

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

Sites connected to a woman born on a ship and spared by a pirate.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.

Connecticut sites linked to the only trial to ever use demonic possession as a criminal defense.

Rock face that shares a name with Mary Shelley's famous doctor.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.