Places sierrawest Wants to Go

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

This is the house that spite built.

Massachusetts memorial to murder victim Elizabeth Short near the spot where she was born.

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

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

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

The self-proclaimed world's smallest museum, located next to a Massachusetts sandwich chain.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.

Statue in Salem of the woman who starred as the witch Samantha in the sitcom "Bewitched."

New England's "Witches of Eastwick" locations, in all of their quaint white churched glory.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

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

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.

This historic graveyard monument is dedicated to a tragic victim of witch trial hysteria.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.