Places kmaroonfoto Wants to Go

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

Artifacts of whaling, with both its perils and adventure, are housed in this museum in a former candle factory.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

This massive boulder is inscribed with the story of a sensational hostage negotiation dating back to Colonial times.

A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.

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

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

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This is the house that spite built.

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

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

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Run by a eugenics advocate, this aging institution conducted secret radiation experiments sponsored by Quaker Oats.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

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

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

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

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.