Places katuncanny Wants to Go

An Escher-inspired library dedicated to the wonders of the human mind, yet closed to the public.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

The intriguing personal collection of a professional demon-chaser.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

"Try not to knock anything over!"

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

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

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

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

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

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

This abandoned neighborhood is now a park filled with beautiful trees, wildflowers, and hints of its past.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Small shop offering mail-order rare and exotic plants.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.