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

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

This rare symbol of Eastern philosophy in the West has been created over years of painstaking construction by the local community.

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

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

The remnants of a Gilded Age elegance preserved in the middle of a stark modern tower.

Historic Hull Street was actually the first street with a proper name in the Boston area.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

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

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

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

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

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

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

America's original house of worship for Spiritualism, the religious movement based on communing with the dead.

The tomb of Increase Mather and his son Cotton, influential colonial ministers obsessed with the occult.