Salem, Mass

I have always wanted to go to Salem, probably since reading The Witch of Blackbird Pond in middle school, then reading The Scarlet Letter in high school, then again in college (neither of which take place in Salem, but both focus on witches). In my past visit to Massachussettes, we just went to Lenox, Concord, and Boston, but not Salem, so I told Josh that we absolutely had to go there. I wanted to see a witch museum!

Unfortunately, I had no idea that New England closes down from October to May (my guess is it's because of bad weather and few sightseers), so we didn't have many choices of things to see.

But we still got to go to the Witch Museum:

Interestingly, the museum was in an old church:

It also didn't have anything authentic to the period of the Salem Witch Trials (1692-1693, a surprisingly short period of time), and wasn't much of an actual museum, but it did have an interesting, 45-minute animatronic presentation about the events, including a creepy, fake devil with glowing red eyes. 

We had lunchon the waterfront. Josh ate tons of fish. I had a salad (*sigh*) and some pasta. Also, I stared at this ship:

Josh absolutely had to see this:

It's a statue of Samantha Stephens from "Bewitched." We had a hard time finding it, and an even harder time parking in order to get there (apparently people in Salem don't know how to not block intersections and/or leave parking spaces in a timely manner). It was extremely cold and wet, so I stayed in the car.

That was the sum total of our trip to Salem, aside from the dude who asked us where to buy "trinkets and knick-knacks" (we pointed him toward the waterfront and quickly walked away).