Massachusetts
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Mapparium
Boston, Massachusetts
The world turned inside out as a large glass sphere, for your geographic viewing pleasure.
Witch Dungeon Museum
Salem, Massachusetts
Mixed dummy/live witch trial -- right where it all happened in 1692. Visitors tour a recreation of Salem's dungeon, complete with hanged corpses.
Whydah Pirate Museum
West Yarmouth, Massachusetts
Booty salvaged from pirate ship Whydah, which sank off Cape Cod in 1717. Ship replica and working salvage lab.
Dighton Rock Museum
Berkley, Massachusetts
A mysteriously marked boulder, hauled out of the river and displayed in a special building. As for the markings -- theories abound. Even
Museum of Bad Art
Boston, Massachusetts
An ever-changing collection of bad art was originally hung on the basement walls of an old movie theater, next to a bathroom. Now it has a home in a brewery.
Irish Potato Famine Memorial
Boston, Massachusetts
Statues of "before" and "after" famine victims: sad and emaciated in Ireland, well-fed and smiling in America.
Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
Fall River, Massachusetts
Alleged murderess Lizzie Borden museum, hatchet, blood-stained artifacts.
Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast
Fall River, Massachusetts
Sleep in the death bedroom, then buy a Lizzie bobblehead!
Hannah Duston: The Mother's Revenge
Haverhill, Massachusetts
Kidnapped and dragged to New Hampshire -- then Hannah had her revenge on her captors. With a hatchet.
Titanic Museum
Indian Orchard, Massachusetts
Where rivet counters and the rank and file can learn all about the 1912 Ship of Doom.
National Monument to the Forefathers
Plymouth, Massachusetts
A towering, heroic-scale, allegorical mess of a monument, the largest solid granite thing in the U.S.
Jordan's Furniture - Water Show
Reading, Massachusetts
An out-of-control theme park-furniture store features an indoor water light show, a giant banana split, and other oddities.
The Paper House
Rockport, Massachusetts
The Stenman family layered and pasted and rolled approximately 100,000 newspapers to make their dream home in 1929.
Bewitched Statue
Salem, Massachusetts
TV Land statue salutes Elizabeth Montgomery, spellbinding star of TV's Bewitched.
Emily the Cow, Vegetarian Activist
Sherborn, Massachusetts
A cow that escaped from a slaughterhouse has been memorialized in life-size bronze.
Optical Heritage Museum
Southbridge, Massachusetts
Chronicles the history of American Optical, one-time world's preeminent manufacturer of eyeglasses.
Dr. Seuss: Amazing World and Sculpture Garden
Springfield, Massachusetts
Kids can climb on a fiberglass Wump the Gump; adults can ponder Dr. Seuss's bow-tie collection and his pen nibs.
Bancroft Tower - Castle-Lite
Worcester, Massachusetts
A skinny mini-castle built on a hilltop by the richest man in town as an odd tribute to a family friend.
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- Arlington: Uncle Sam Birthplace Statue
- Barre: God's Wisdom: Giant Letters [tips]
- Berkley: Dighton Rock Museum
- Boston: Mapparium
- Boston: Skull of Phineas Gage and the Rod That Passed Through It
- Boston: Hood Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Boston: World's Largest Van De Graff Generator [tips]
- Boston: Museum of Bad Art
- Boston: Irish Potato Famine Memorial
- Brockton: Giant Rocky Marciano [tips]
- Cambridge: Easter Island Big Fisherman [tips]
- Carlisle: See Cows Milked By Robot [tips]
- Cheshire: Replica of the Mammoth Cheese
- Dorchester: John F. Kennedy Museum
- Douglas: Ice Cream Lady Statue [tips]
- East Boston: Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine [tips]
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast
- Fall River: Battleship Massachusetts [tips]
- Fall River: Rolling Rock
- Florida: Expired Parking Meter Tombstone [tips]
- Gardner: Bicentennial Giant Chair
- Gloucester: Castle Built by Father of Remote Control [tips]
- Goshen: Three Sisters Sanctuary: Giant Tin Man, Dragon [tips]
- Groveland: Muffler Man with Ax [tips]
- Halifax: Legs of Myles Standish [tips]
- Hancock: Muffler Man - The Big Man [tips]
- Haverhill: Hannah Duston: The Mother's Revenge
- Holyoke: Dead Frog Circus [tips]
- Hudson: American Heritage Museum [tips]
- Indian Orchard: Titanic Museum
- Lee: Big Beaver [tips]
- Leominster: Grave of Man Persecuted For His Beard [tips]
- New Bedford: Big Milk Bottle [tips]
- New Bedford: Moby Dick Movie Whalers' Pulpit [tips]
- Plymouth: National Monument to the Forefathers
- Raynham: Big Milk Bottle [tips]
- Reading: Jordan's Furniture - Water Show
- Rockport: The Paper House
- Rutland: Geographical Center Tree of Massachusetts [tips]
- Salem: Witch Dungeon Museum
- Salem: Bewitched Statue
- Salem: Witch History Museum
- Salem: Cry Innocent Witch Trial
- Salem: Salem Witch Museum [tips]
- Salem: New England Pirate Museum [tips]
- Salem: World of Witches Museum [tips]
- Salem: House of Metal Creatures [tips]
- Shelburne Falls: 20-Foot-Tall Indian
- Sherborn: Emily the Cow, Vegetarian Activist
- Shirley: Indian Muffler Man [tips]
- Shirley: Head of the Egopantis [tips]
- South Dartmouth: Big Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Southbridge: Optical Heritage Museum
- Springfield: Dr. Seuss: Amazing World and Sculpture Garden
- Springfield: Fame Reaches for McKinley's Head
- Webster: Longest Named Thing in America [tips]
- Wellesley: World's 2nd Largest Rotating Globe
- West Yarmouth: Whydah Pirate Museum
- Westford: The Westford Knight [tips]
- Westport: Trump, SpongeBob, and Other Sculptures
- Williamstown: "Eyes" On The Campus Lawn [tips]
- Worcester: Bancroft Tower - Castle-Lite
- Worcester: The Notorious Turtle Boy [tips]
