A monument in a town outside of Boston celebrates the visits of Edgar Allan Poe.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

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

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

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

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

A rock outcropping left by a glacier that made itself useful throughout the centuries.

Surrounded by lonely toys, this Massachusetts gravestone marks the final resting place of six children who were murdered by poverty.

The haunting history of a little girl lost.

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

This dam in the woods, built by Henry Ford with only manpower and oxen, holds no water and serves no purpose.

"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."

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

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

Locals say Williams' ghost still haunts the place where she was murdered.

This donated headstone marks the grave of a pair of elderly women who were mysteriously murdered.

Burial ground for revolutionary veterans attracts tall tales, ghost hunters, not enough historians and preservationists.

In order to save this beloved rock, locals blew it up and put it back together piece by piece.

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

A famous burial ground with a history both grim and literary.