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Where Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird created their "heroes in a half shell" and founded Mirage Studios.

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

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

The grave of Mary Nasson is shrouded by witchy legends.

The head of a legendary lumberjack watches over a river in Maine.

Final resting place of the two women killed on a small island off the coast of New Hampshire.

New Hampshire's first neighborhood is now preserved as a historic village with live action role players.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

The mansion and cenotaph of the New Hampshire Faust.

This World's Fair showpiece was built in Chicago, but shipped to Maine.

Stuck in a bygone era, the oldest subterranean shopping street in Japan hides beneath the popular Asakusa district of Tokyo.

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

This funeral home had the honor, if that is the correct word, of hosting the funeral of the famous Sacco and Vanzetti.

The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

A little Lego easter egg is hidden underwater in the Boston Tea Party tableau at Miniland.

The classic Christmas carol was written at this Massachusetts tavern in 1850.

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

A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This humble resting place belongs to one of history's most celebrated restaurateurs.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.