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Built to bless whalers before their voyages, this Massachusetts church now features a ship-shaped pulpit.

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

House used in the 1971 horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death."

New Preston and Kent, Connecticut - where Friday the 13th, Part 2 was filmed.

A collection of haunted artifacts chronicles the career of the world’s most famous paranormal investigators. Museum is temporarily closed with plans to re-open.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Maybe the only missile installed in a public park, this Cold War leftover was one of the first to carry a nuclear warhead.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

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.

This once luxurious Catskills resort is now a haunting ruin.

These mouldering mansion ruins remember a time when the Catskills were nothing but luxury.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

Homemade rockets, dinosaurs, and robots make this New York small business much more than a furniture store.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

What was once a trend-setting, phrase-coining icon of architectural splendor is now a rotting, forgotten hulk.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.