Places elainehart Wants to Go

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This rustic cabin, outfitted with gun slits, was once home to John D. Tewksbury, patriarch of the bloodiest family feud in American history.

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

This historic park site contains the last remnants of a once bustling canal system.

This lovely hilltop tower was specifically built to withstand 100 MPH winds.

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

The tragic tale of the dentist who pioneered the use of anesthesia.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

This relic of 19th-century infrastructure is one of the few remaining coal gas storage tanks in the U.S.

The first American home of the isolated, egalitarian religion has a trove of Shaker architecture and artifacts.

A 19th-century smallpox cemetery is being reclaimed by scrub forest and sand dunes.

This sprawling 18th-century cemetery features unique and beautiful gravestones, including one shaped like a tree.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

Site of the creepy house used in Lucio Fulci's "The House by the Cemetery."

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

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

The remains of a hospital ravaged by fire, once a progressive place of innovations for disabled children.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.