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Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

Locals purchased this abandoned quarry in order to make sure it continues to be overgrown.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

"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."

A mysterious collection of stones stand outside a small New England town.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

Located just behind a quiet residential neighborhood, this is ground zero for the Salem witchcraft hysteria of 1692.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Inspiring Herman Melville and Henry David Thoreau, Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts is the highest point in the state at 3,491 feet above sea level.

A cave dug by a man directed by ghosts to find pirate treasure.

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

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

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

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

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

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

Experience the hysteria of a 17th century witch hunt through goofy reenactments and wax dummies that should probably be burned at the stake.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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