Haverhill, Massachusetts
Bradford College
A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.
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Haverhill, Massachusetts
A defunct all-girls college which may be the resting place of H.P. Lovecraft's real-life Necronomicon.
Deerfield, Massachusetts
This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.
Worcester, Massachusetts
A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.
Salem, Massachusetts
Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."
Mount Washington, Massachusetts
One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.
Danvers, Massachusetts
Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.
Boston, Massachusetts
19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!
Danvers, Massachusetts
The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.
Thetford, Vermont
This folk art dinosaur was almost pushed to extinction due to lack of a building permit.
Lee, Massachusetts
Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."
Dummerston, Vermont
Site of the graveyard vine believed to be a curse on a family from the 1800s.
Greenfield, Massachusetts
Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.
Leicester, Massachusetts
The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This boulder with a 200-word legal dedication to God has remained hidden in the woods for over 150 years.
Worcester, Massachusetts
The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.
Worcester, Massachusetts
This miniature feudal castle was built on a whim to honor a US Navy pioneer.
Orange, Massachusetts
A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.
North Bennington, Vermont
The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."
Becket, Massachusetts
Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.
North Adams, Massachusetts
Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.
North Adams, Massachusetts
The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.
Ware, Massachusetts
The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.
Petersham, Massachusetts
All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.