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Root cellar

Rutland, Massachusetts

Rutland Prison Camp

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

Hammond Castle Museum

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Hammond Castle Museum

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Close up of some of the crowded and near-illegible accusation

Milford, New Hampshire

Caroline Cutter Headstone

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

The Swing Bridge-Pine St. Side

Milford, New Hampshire

The Swing Bridge

This historic mini-suspension bridge was swept away once but is now here to stay.

Deed Rock.

Worcester, Massachusetts

Deed Rock

This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.

The back of the menu at the Country Tavern Restaurant
Permanently Closed

Nashua, New Hampshire

Country Tavern Restaurant

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Rollstone Boulder

Fitchburg, Massachusetts

Rollstone Boulder

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

Bancroft Tower

Worcester, Massachusetts

Bancroft Tower

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

Purgatory Chasm

Sutton, Massachusetts

Purgatory Chasm

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

Mary Had a Little Lamb statue

Sterling, Massachusetts

Mary Had a Little Lamb Statue

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

A view of the tower.

Groton, Massachusetts

Bancroft Castle

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard

Harvard, Massachusetts

Harvard Shaker Lollipop Graveyard

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

The Witch Bonney

Lowell, Massachusetts

The Mysterious Witch Bonney

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

Danvers State Hospital
Permanently Closed

Danvers, Massachusetts

Danvers State Hospital

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

Susanna Jayne Headstone at Old Burial Hill

Marblehead, Massachusetts

Susanna Jayne Headstone

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

The Satanic Temple in Salem.

Salem, Massachusetts

The Satanic Temple

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Myles Standish's Legs and me

Halifax, Massachusetts

The Legs of Myles Standish

A pair of 7-foot legs belonging to the military man of the Mayflower stand jauntily by the side of the road.

Salem Witch House

Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch House of Salem

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

Grave of Robert DeSalvo, the Boston Strangler

Peabody, Massachusetts

Grave of the Boston Strangler

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

Weymouth, Massachusetts

Grape Island Straw Alarm

Site of an oft forgotten and revolutionary battle.

Huts on Georges Island

Hull, Massachusetts

Hut of Refuge

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Lover’s Rock of Lovells Island

Boston, Massachusetts

Lover’s Rock of Lovells Island

A disastrous shipwreck and a tragic love story.

The Murder Holes of Fort Warren

Hull, Massachusetts

The Murder Holes of Fort Warren

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

Classic WWII Chapel

Hull, Massachusetts

Classic WWII Chapel

Last church of this militaristic WWII style.

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