Many would be surprised to hear that Smuttynose Island, part of the Isles of Shoals, has a very dark history. Back in 1873, two women named Karen and Anethe Christiansen met their gruesome fate in an overnight robbery-turned-murder.
Andrew and Abby Borden were both murdered in this home in 1892 and today operates as a bed and breakfast drawing in fans of true crime and the paranormal.
YIKES: They can grow to the size of an adults' thumb and deliver a sting so painful that one entomologist described it to The New York Times as "like having red-hot thumbtacks" being driven into their flesh.