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No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

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

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The headquarters in Salem doubles as an occult art gallery.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

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

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.

The final resting place of a physician rescued during the bombardment of Fort McHenry.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

This small cemetery remains hidden behind a recreation center.