Massachusetts
Find Massachusetts travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Kids Love Local Rock
Fall River - The 140-ton boulder, which has been a postcard-worthy traffic hazard for longer than anyone can remember, is now the "official glacial rock" of Massachusetts, thanks to a bill signed into law by governor Deval Patrick. Full story
Featured Attractions
Museum of Bad Art
Dedham, Massachusetts
Run your taste buds over these fine works hung outside the basement men's room.
Titanic Museum
Indian Orchard, Massachusetts
Where rivet counters and the rank and file can learn all about the 1912 Ship of Doom.
Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast
Fall River, Massachusetts
Sleep in the death bedroom, then buy a Lizzie bobblehead!
The Mapparium
Boston, Massachusetts
The world turned inside out as a large glass sphere, for your geographic viewing pleasure.
The Ether Dome
Boston, Massachusetts
The historical operating theater where ether was first administered. I'm sleepy.
Jordan's Furniture
Mardi Gras show at Jordan's Furniture, Massachusetts
Over-the-top Mardi Gras multimedia experience entices furniture buyers to... what?
Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
Fall River, Massachusetts
Alleged murderess Lizzie Borden museum, hatchet, blood-stained artifacts.
Bewitched Statue
Salem, Massachusetts
TV Land statue salutes Elizabeth Montgomery, spellbinding star of TV's Bewitched.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Boston: The Ether Dome
- Boston: Ether Monument
- Boston: Mapparium
- Boston: Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Boston: Molasses Flood of 1919
- East Charlemont: Largest Indian Chief in Massachusetts [tips]
- Charlton: Grave of Grizzly Adams
- Cheshire: Cheese Monument [tips]
- Dedham: Museum of Bad Art
- Easton: Shovel Museum [tips]
- East Wareham - Onset: World's Largest Thermometer Collection [tips]
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
- Fall River: Battleship, Sub, Japanese Zero [tips]
- Gardner: World's Largest Chair
- Gloucester: Castle Built By "Father of Remote Control"
- Greenfield: Long View Tower
- Indian Orchard: Titanic Museum
- Leominster: National Plastics Center and Museum
- Leominster: Johnny Appleseed Born Here
- Mattapoisett: Giant Seahorse [tips]
- Middleborough: Tom Thumb Museum [tips]
- Natick: Jordan's Furniture
- New Bedford: Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Pigeon Cove: Paper House
- Plymouth: Oldest Tourist Attraction
- Reading: Jordan's Furniture
- Salem: Bewitched Statue
- Salem: Witch Dungeon
- Salem: Witch History Museum
- Salem: Salem Witch Museum [tips]
- Salem: "Cry Innocent!" Witch Trial [tips]
- Saugus: Frightening Highway [tips]
- Shelburne Falls: First Maple Syrup in Outer Space [tips]
- Sherborn: Emily, Activist Cow
- South Dartmouth: Big Milk Can Restaurant [tips]
- South Hadley: NASHional Dino Land
- Sterling: Disputed birthplace of "Mary had a Little Lamb" [tips]
- Sudbury: Where Henry Ford hauled the "Mary had a Little Lamb" schoolhouse [tips]
- Watertown: American Sanitary Plumbing Museum [tips]
- Wellesley: Former World's Largest World
- Weston: Weird Viking Tower [tips]
- Woburn: Battleship Maine Ventilator Cowl
