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"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

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

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.

Birthplace of America's first documented serial killer.

This tower commemorates the spot where George Washington hoisted the Grand Union flag.

A monument marks where a convent was burned by an anti-Catholic mob in 1834.

The oldest continuously inhabited private home in the United States.

Historic house still contains bullet holes from an overlooked battle of the American Revolution.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This sculpture memorializes the town's connection to the famous horror author Edgar Allan Poe.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

This Victorian home turned opera house may have a phantom of its own.

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

The birth home of one of cinema's legendary actresses.

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

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

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

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

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

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.