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

An inn older than the Witch Trials.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

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

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

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

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

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

This Tudor-style mansion is home to the first roadside confectioner in the United States.

A pair of antique trolleys are on display at one of the oldest subway stations in the United States.

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

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

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

A tribute to the couples who brave long periods of separation during wartime.

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

Earliest version of the American flag can be seen atop the hill where it first flew.

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

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

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

An artifact taken from one of America's shortest wars.

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

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.