Places From the Backwoods Wants to Go

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The site of the tragic isolation of Nipmuc Native Americans left to perish in King Philip's War.

The Cape Cod house that whaling built.

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

A man killed in a hunting accident is eternally guarded by a granite hound tombstone.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.