Places Midnight Maiden Wants to Go

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Connecticut grave of the woman responsible for the Winchester Mystery House in California.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

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

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Civil War-era Fort designed to withstand invasion and attack, with tricky traps called "murder holes."

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

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

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

The hill that gave the Massachusett tribe, and later the state, its name.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

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

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.