Tourists often visit sites marked by death, tragedy, and disaster out of macabre curiosity. What they typically find there is enlightenment, empathy, and a connection to history.

Somerville author Lesley Bannatyne recounts Halloween's roots, while writer Sam Baltrusis explores Salem's dark past ...

The seaside town of Marblehead, Massachusetts, gives quintessential New England in its scenic harbor, historic downtown and ...

LENOX — The historic Garden Gables Inn, hidden away off Main Street in one of the town’s oldest surviving houses ... a real estate investment and development company based in Salem. The Vittori family ...

Just days before Halloween, hundreds of folks who enjoy being scared descended upon to Maple Crest Farm on Saturday for fun ...

Murphy, North Carolina, is a remote mountain town with lots for visitors to do. There is a historic museum, river walk, ...

And in that cemetery there is Nathaniel Saltonstall, the son-in-law of John Ward, the founder of town. But he was also briefly one of the judges in Salem until he realized what a bad thing was going ...

A jury on Monday begun deliberating in the case of an Alabama man accused of the beating and stabbing death of an 11-year-old ...

York in the UK, or Salem in Massachusetts ... Sleeping up to six guests, this imaginatively-converted church near the Irish town of Portlaw makes for a great ghoulish getaway.

AND WINSTON-SALEM GREENSBORO ALL THE WAY UP THROUGH MOUNT ... WE’VE BEEN TRACKING THIS SYSTEM THAT’S JUST HANGING OUT REALLY HASN’T DEVELOPED YET. BUT POTENTIALLY IN THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS ...