Massachusetts Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Massachusetts places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Acushnet: Mr. Muffles
Arlington: Uncle Sam Birthplace Statue
Assonet: Profile Rock - Indian Chief
Auburn: Goddard Park - Polaris Missile
Avon: Jordan's Furniture - M.O.M. Thrill Ride
Barre: God's Wisdom: Giant Letters
Bellingham: Carved Paul Bunyan
Berkley: Dighton Rock Museum
Boston: All Saints Way - Wall of Saints
Boston: Birthplace of the Kennedys' Mom
Boston: Center of the Universe
Boston: Children's Museum Hall of Toys
Boston: Dinosaur - T. Rex Statue
Boston: Ether Dome
Boston: Ether Monument
Boston: Giant Baby Heads
Boston: Giant Padlock and Chain
Boston: Historic Steaming Kettle
Boston: Hood Milk Bottle
Boston: Hood Milk Bottle Building
Boston: Molasses Flood Plaque
Boston: Mother Goose's Gravesite
Boston: Napoleon's Death Mask
Boston: Nascent Shoe Tree?
Boston: Skull of Phineas Gage and the Rod That Passed Through It
Boston: The Mapparium
Boston: The Skinny House
Boston: World's Largest Van De Graff Generator
Brockton: Giant Rocky Marciano
Cambridge: MIT Museum
Cambridge: Miniature Pooh Stump House
Charlton: Grave of Grizzly Adams
Cheshire: Giant Rooster
Cheshire: Monument to Jefferson's Mammoth Cheese
Chicopee: Muffler Man - Big White Guy
Chilmark: Grave of John Belushi
Danvers: Salem Witchcraft Victims Memorial
Dartmouth: Gulf Hill Ice Cream Bucket
Dedham: Grave of Igloo, Admiral Richard Byrd's Dog
Dedham: Grave of Lizzie Borden's Dogs
Dedham: Museum of Bad Art
Dedham: North America's Oldest Wood Frame House
Douglas: Ice Cream Lady Statue
Easton: Shovel Museum
Essex: Fried Clam Inventor
Fall River: Battleship Massachusetts
Fall River: Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast
Fall River: Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
Fall River: Rolling Rock
Fall River: Train-Augmented McDonald's
Fitchburg: Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum
Gardner: Bicentennial Giant Chair
Gardner: Huge Yellow Chair
Gardner: Large Chair Indoors
Gloucester: Castle Built By "Father of Remote Control"
Gloucester: Dogtown Ghost Town and Babson Boulders
Gloucester: Man at the Wheel
Gloucester: Pink Elephant
Goshen: Tin Man with Heart, Junk Art Arches, Dragon
Granby: Big Milk Can and Bottle
Great Barrington: Newsboy Fountain
Greenfield: Gravity Hill
Greenfield: Tree Stump ATM
Groveland: Muffler Man formerly named Yvon
Halifax: Waterman Bird Farm
Hancock: Muffler Man - The Big Man
Haverhill: Hannah Duston's Whackin' Hatchet
Haverhill: Hannah Duston: The Mother's Revenge
Holliston: Giant Rosary Beads
Holliston: Moon Tree
Holyoke: Dead Frog Circus
Hubbardston: Big Bull Statue
Hyannis: Cape Cod Duckmobiles, Fake Lighthouse
Indian Orchard: Titanic Museum
Ipswich: The Clam Box
Lee: Big Beaver
Leominster: Airplane Mini Golf
Leominster: Birthplace of Johnny Appleseed
Leominster: Grave of Man Persecuted for his Beard
Leominster: Living Stones
Lowell: American Textile History Museum
Ludlow: Lupa Zoo (Lupa's Game Farm)
Lynn: Milk Truck
Marlborough: John Brown's Bell
Mattapoisett: Giant Seahorse
Medford: Jumbo the Elephant: Statue and Ashes

Medford: Weeping Mary statue
Middleborough: Tom Thumb Collection
Middlefield: IT Gravestone
Milford: Irish Round Tower Replica
Milton: Virgin Mary apparition in window condensation
Natick: Jordan's Furniture - Mardi Gras!
New Bedford: Angry Whale Hunter With a Harpoon
New Bedford: Big Milk Bottle
New Bedford: Magnetic Hill - Vague Recollections
New Bedford: Moby-Dick Movie Whalers' Pulpit
Newton: Time Paradox Johnny Kelley Statue
North Adams: Church with Congregation of Nude Statues
Northampton: Beer Can Museum
Otis: Otis Poultry Farm
Pittsfield: Large Steel Baseball Bat, Glove of Shrubs
Pittsfield: Wally the Stegosaurus
Plainville: Giant Baseball Bat Sculpted from Tree
Plymouth: National Monument to the Forefathers
Plymouth: Oldest Tourist Attraction in America
Plymouth: Peter Toth Indian Head
Plymouth: Sacrifice Rock
Provincetown: Pilgrim Monument And Museum
Quincy: First and Original Dunkin Donuts
Quincy: USS Salem - From Mothballs to Museum
Quincy: World's Most Nearly Perfect Sphere
Raynham: Big Milk Bottle
Reading: Jordan's Furniture - Trapeze School, Water Show
Rochester: Witch Rock
Rockport: Paper House
Rowe: Hoosac Tunnel
Rowley: Giant Gum Drop
Rutland: Geographical Center Tree of Massachusetts
Salem: "Cry Innocent" Witch Trial
Salem: Bewitched Statue
Salem: Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery
Salem: House of Metal Creatures
Salem: New England Pirate Museum
Salem: Salem Witch Museum
Salem: Spellbound Museum, Vampire and Ghost Hunt Tour
Salem: The Witch Dungeon Museum
Salem: Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers
Salem: Witch History Museum
Salem: World of Witches Museum
Salisbury Beach: Eerie Boardwalk Town
Saugus: Famous Orange Dinosaur
Saugus: Frightening Saugus
Saugus: Largest Cactus in Massachusetts
Saugus: Leaning Tower of Pizza
Seekonk: Lifted Up Cross and Hands Sculpture
Shelburne Falls: Big Indian Shop and Statue
Shelburne Falls: Bridge of Flowers
Shelburne Falls: First Maple Syrup in Outer Space
Sherborn: Emily the Cow, Vegetarian Activist
Shirley: Muffler Man
Somerville: Museum of Bad Art
South Carver: Edaville USA - Cranberry Bog Train
South Dartmouth: Big Milk Can Building
South Deerfield: World's Largest Candle in World's Largest Candle Store
South Hadley: Nash Dino Land
South Yarmouth: Large Sharks in wall
Southbridge: Giant Eye Glasses
Springfield: Dr. Seuss National Memorial Garden
Springfield: Private Monument to Rocky Marciano
Sterling: Mary's Little Lamb
Sudbury: Mary's Little Lamb Schoolhouse
Tyringham: Santarella - Gingerbread House
Vineyard Haven: Methodist Tabernacle
Watertown: American Sanitary and Plumbing Museum
Wellesley: World's Formerly Largest Rotating Globe
Westfield: Black Squirrel Town
Westford: The Westford Knight
Weston: Tower Marks Town of Massachusetts Viking
Westport: Fork In The Road
Whately: Big Cement Milk Bottle
Williamstown: "Eyes" On The Campus Lawn
Winchendon: Clyde, Toy Town Horse
Woburn: USS Maine's Ventilation Cowl
Worcester: Bancroft Tower - Castle-Lite
Worcester: Higgins Armory Museum
Worcester: Leprechaun Hat
Worcester: The Notorious Turtle Boy
Worcester: Wall O' Washingtons
Yarmouthport: Edward Gorey House
Yarmouth: Gravestone with a Modern Curse

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Boston: Museum of Dirt - Gone
Greenfield: Longview Tower - See 3 States - Closed
Holyoke: Holyoke Amusement Park - Gone
Leominster: Magnetic Hill - Gravity Hill
Leominster: National Plastics Center and Museum - Closed
Lynn: Bunyan Muffler Man - Gone
Marlborough: Small Circus Museum - Gone
North Adams: Upside-Down Bathroom
Northampton: Northampton State Mental Hospital - Off Limits

Onset: World's Largest Thermometer Collection - Closed
Pittsfield: Parking Lot Shipwreck - Gone
Reading: Ship House - Gone
Salem: 40 Whacks Museum - Closed
Springfield: Miracle Virgin Mary in Window
Topsfield: Muffler Man - Gone
West Springfield: Mr Potato Head Ambassador
Yarmouth: Waving Tan Man - Gone

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