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One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

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

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

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

This ambitious father and son team reigned supreme over the North End, and witches, for many years.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

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

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

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

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."

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

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.

This landmark cemetery in Boston was created more than 300 years ago.