Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

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

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A safe space and resource for anything and everything relating to sex and sexuality.

The site of the largest mass execution in Rhode Island history, haunted by the ghosts of hanged pirates.

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

Despite the name, this narrow bridge isn't very dangerous at all.

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

Ironically this massive termite is the mascot for a company that is acclaimed for killing his kind.

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Once the largest attraction in Rhode Island, this former amusement park is now a gorgeous coastal state park.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

A giant green dragon crawls down from the roof of the Providence Children's Museum.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

As state highpoints go, this spot is one of the lowest, but for years it was also the hardest to climb.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

This cemetery is home to numerous granite headstones that are works of art unto themselves.

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.