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

This Gothic castle was inspired by Erik the Red's Viking residence at Brattahlid in Greenland.

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Once the largest public hospital for the mentally ill was also surrounded by controversy.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

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

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

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

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

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

A short walk through the woods will take you to an unusual flat hill top, used by the Shakers for outdoor worship.

This historic cemetery is filled with markers that look more like candy than was likely intended.

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

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

The head of a legendary creature allegedly killed during colonial times is now on display at a local restaurant.

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

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

The site of the Andover Witch Hunts, which ended with more witch accusations and arrests than Salem.

Every December the Wannalancit Mills lights a Christmas Tree over the old mill's smokestack.

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

The oldest tavern in Lowell has dedicated fans of its fan.

According to the experts at the Guinness World's Record office, this is the longest candy counter in the world.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

A gas station and a state sign commemorating the most famous claims of extraterrestrial abduction.