Massachusetts Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Massachusetts. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Boston
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Acton: The Acton Bigfoot: YV Art Museum - Adams: Lighthouse Atop Mount Greylock
- Adams: Waving McKinley, Friend of the Cotton Industry
- Amesbury: Cartoonist Al Capp Mural
- Amherst: Hope the Cow
- Arlington: Uncle Sam Birthplace Statue
- Attleboro: Smokestack Memorial
- Attleboro: World's Largest Nativity Collection
- Auburn: First Rocket Launched Here
- Avon: Jordan's Furniture - M.O.M. Thrill Ride
- Barnstable: Oldest Wooden Jail In America
- Barre: God's Wisdom: Giant Letters
- Bellingham: Carved Paul Bunyan
- Bellingham: Spud of Steel: Potato Head
- Berkley: Dighton Rock Museum
- Boston: All Saints Way - Wall of Saints
- Boston: Asaroton: Trash in the Pavement
- Boston: Bar Seen in Cheers
- Boston: Berkeley Building Weather Beacon
- Boston: Big Cigar
- Boston: Big Head of Arthur Fiedler
- Boston: Big Teddy Bear Statue
- Boston: Birthplace of the Kennedys' Mom
- Boston: Birthplace of the Telephone
- Boston: Bobby Orr Statue
- Boston: Boston Stone
- Boston: Chinatown Gate
- Boston: Democratic Donkey, Republican Footprints
- Boston: Dinosaur - T. Rex Statue
- Boston: Edgar Allan Poe Statue
- Boston: Ether Dome
- Boston: Ether Monument
- Boston: Future VP Elbridge Gerry Invents the Gerrymander
- Boston: Giant Baby Heads
- Boston: Glow-in-the-Dark Swings
- Boston: Golden Teapot
- Boston: Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - Plaque
- Boston: Green Monster Scoreboard Sphere
- Boston: Hood Milk Bottle Building
- Boston: Hub of the Universe
- Boston: Irish Potato Famine Memorial
- Boston: Make Way For Ducklings
- Boston: Many-Armed MLK Memorial
- Boston: Mapparium
- Boston: Mother Goose's Gravesite
- Boston: Museum of Bad Art
- Boston: Potato Sack Monument
- Boston: Shape-Shifting Giant Head
- Boston: Site of the Cocoanut Grove Nightclub Horror
- Boston: Skull of Phineas Gage and the Rod That Passed Through It
- Boston: Statue of JFK: Going Places
- Boston: The Partisans - Bony Horsemen Statue
- Boston: The Skinny House
- Boston: Washington Stood Here
- Boston: World's Largest Van De Graff Generator
- Bourne: Grover Cleveland's Personal Train Station
- Bourne: Mysterious Bourne Stone
- Braintree: Sacco and Vanzetti Murder Memorial
- Brockton: Giant Rocky Marciano
- Brockton: Marvelous Marvin Hagler Statue
- Cambridge: Easter Island Fisherman
- Cambridge: MIT Museum
- Cambridge: Marker: Leif Erikson's House Was Here
- Cambridge: Washington Command Monument and Tree
- Carlisle: See Cows Milked By Robot
- Carver: America's First Divided Highway
- Carver: King Richard's Faire
- Charlemont: Hail to the Sunrise
- Charlestown: Sawed-Off Head of Andrew Jackson
- Charlton: Grave of Grizzly Adams
- Cheshire: Monument to the Mammoth Cheese
- Cheshire: Replica of the Mammoth Cheese
- Chilmark: Grave of John Belushi
- Chilmark: Island Folk Pottery Sculpture Walk
- Clinton: Abandoned Train Tunnel
- Concord: Authors' Ridge - The Literary Dead
- Concord: First Woman With Drivers License Grave
- Concord: Henry David Thoreau's Beanpatch
- Danvers: Oldest Fruit Tree in North America
- 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: North America's Oldest Wood Frame House
- Dennis: Scargo Tower
- Dorchester: 12-Foot-Tall Pear
- Dorchester: John F. Kennedy Museum
- Douglas: Ice Cream Lady Statue
- Duxbury: Myles Standish Monument
- East Boston: Art in a Shipyard
- East Boston: Madonna Queen of the Universe Shrine
- East Boston: Tour a Lightship
- Eastham: Doane Rock
- Eastham: Memorial Buoy Tree
- Eastham: Three Sisters Lighthouses
- Easton: Nathan Selee's Satanic Mill
- Easton: Shovel Museum
- Fall River: Battleship Massachusetts
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden Murderabilia
- Fall River: Lizzie Borden's Grave
- Fall River: Rolling Rock
- Falmouth: World's Oldest Baseball Diamond
- Fitchburg: Calvin Coolidge Stood Here
- Fitchburg: Rollstone Boulder: Blown Up, Reassembled
- Florida: Elk on the Trail Monument
- Florida: Expired Parking Meter Tombstone
- Florida: Hoosac Tunnel Victims Memorial
- Gardner: Bicentennial Giant Chair
- Gardner: Huge Yellow Chair
- Gloucester: Big Lobster Trap
- Gloucester: Cape Ann Sea Serpent Statue
- Gloucester: Castle Built by Father of Remote Control
- Gloucester: Dogtown Ghost Town and Babson Boulders
- Gloucester: Jon Sarkin's Fish City Studios
- Gloucester: Man at the Wheel
- Gloucester: Pinky the Elephant
- Goshen: Three Sisters Sanctuary: Giant Tin Man, Dragon
- Granby: Big Milk Can and Bottle
- Great Barrington: World's Oldest Paperboy Statue
- Greenfield: Fish Made Of Cutlery
- Greenfield: Gravity Hill
- Greenfield: Tree Stump ATM
- Groton: Bancroft's Castle
- Groveland: Muffler Man with Ax
- Halifax: Legs of Myles Standish
- Hamilton: General Patton Park WWII Tank
- Hancock: Muffler Man: The Big Man
- Haverhill: Hannah Duston's Whackin' Hatchet
- Haverhill: Hannah Duston: The Mother's Revenge
- Hingham: Massachusetts, Land of Lincolns
- Holliston: Giant Rosary Beads
- Holliston: Moon Tree
- Holyoke: Dead Frog Circus
- Hopkinton: Marathoner Pushing Son in Wheelchair
- Hubbardston: Big Rooster Statue
- Hudson: American Heritage Museum
- Hudson: Tiny Church
- Hyannis: JFK Summer Fun Museum and Barefoot Statue
- Hyannis: Red Cars Only Museum
- Indian Orchard: Titanic Museum
- Ipswich: Clam Box - Take-Out Container
- Ipswich: Devil's Footprint
- Kingston: 42nd Parallel Marker
- Lee: Big Beaver
- Lee: Wonder Woman Rosey House
- Leominster: Birthplace of Johnny Appleseed
- Leominster: Grave of Man Persecuted For His Beard
- Leominster: Living Stones
- Lincoln: Ponyhenge (Retired Rocking Horses)
- Longmeadow: Potato Head
- Lowell: President Clinton Landed Here
- Lynnfield: Skull Cliff
- Lynn: Cannon Rock, Vikings and Druids
- Marlborough: John Brown's Bell
- Mattapoisett: Giant Seahorse
- Medford: Anti-Gravity Monument
- Medford: Black Dahlia Hometown Memorial
- Medford: Jumbo the Elephant: Statue and Ashes
- Methuen: Two Castles
- Middleborough: Tom Thumb Collection
- Middlefield: IT Gravestone
- Milford: Irish Round Tower Replica
- Milton: Exact Replica of Lincoln's Log Cabin
- Milton: Piece of the Oldest U.S. Railroad
- Montague: Bridge of Names
- Nantucket: JFK's A-Bomb Bunker
- New Bedford: 20-Foot-Tall Trash Rooster
- New Bedford: Angry Whaleman with Harpoon
- New Bedford: Big Milk Bottle
- New Bedford: Moby Dick Movie Whalers' Pulpit
- Newton: Front Yard Sandy Koufax
- Newton: Time Paradox Johnny Kelley Statue
- North Adams: America's Switzerland
- North Adams: Church with Congregation of Nude Statues
- North Chatham: Chatham Shark Center
- Northampton: Beer Can Museum
- Onset: Ghost-Talking Wigwam
- Peabody: Grave of the Boston Strangler
- 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: Peter Toth Indian Head
- Plymouth: Plymouth Rock: Oldest Tourist Attraction in the USA
- Plymouth: Sacrifice Rock
- Provincetown: Bob Gasoi Memorial Art Alley
- Provincetown: Mama Shug: Shark Made of Plastic Trash
- Provincetown: Pilgrim Monument and Museum
- Provincetown: Pose with Strung-Up Shark
- Provincetown: Yard Art House
- Quincy: Abigail Adams Statue
- Quincy: First and Original Dunkin Donuts
- Quincy: Grave of the Inventor of the Doughnut Hole
- Quincy: John Quincy Adams' Hearse, Maybe
- Quincy: The Adams Family Statues
- Quincy: USS Salem - From Mothballs to Museum
- Quincy: World's Most Nearly Perfect Sphere
- Raynham: Big Milk Bottle
- Reading: Jordan's Furniture - Water Show
- Rochester: Witch Rock
- Rockport: The Paper House
- Roslindale: Alexander the Great Park
- Rutland: Geographical Center Tree of Massachusetts
- Salem: Bewitched Statue
- Salem: Count Orlok's Nightmare Gallery
- Salem: Cry Innocent Witch Trial
- Salem: House of Metal Creatures
- Salem: House of the Seven Gables
- Salem: International Monster Museum
- Salem: New England Pirate Museum
- Salem: Salem Wax Museum of Witches and Seafarers
- Salem: Salem Witch Museum
- Salem: Salem Witches Hanging Site
- Salem: Satanic Temple: Statue of Baphomet
- Salem: The Witch House
- Salem: Where the Witches Were Tried
- Salem: Witch Dungeon Museum
- Salem: Witch Gaol Plaque #1
- Salem: Witch Gaol Plaque #2
- Salem: Witch History Museum
- Salem: World of Witches Museum
- Salisbury Beach: Eerie Boardwalk Town
- Sandwich: Taft's Steam Car
- Saugus: Famous Orange Dinosaur
- Saugus: Kowloon Restaurant: Polynesian Paradise
- Saugus: Largest Cactus in Massachusetts
- Saugus: Leaning Tower of Pizza
- Scituate: Irish Mossing Museum
- Seekonk: Lifted Up Cross and Hands Sculpture
- Sharon: Statue of Woman Who Fought as a Man
- Sheffield: Reed UFO Encounter Park
- Shelburne Falls: Bridge of Flowers
- Sherborn: Emily the Cow: Vegetarian Activist
- Shirley: Head of the Egopantis
- Shirley: Indian Muffler Man
- Shrewsbury: Overgrown Easter Island Head
- Somerville: Sapphire City House
- South Carver: Edaville USA - Cranberry Bog Train
- South Dartmouth: Milk Can Building
- South Deerfield: World's Largest Candle in World's Largest Candle Store
- South Weymouth: Jet on a Pole
- South Yarmouth: Martin the Bear
- Southbridge: Giant Eye Glasses
- Southbridge: Optical Heritage Museum
- Springfield: 17th Century Indian Snaps a Selfie
- Springfield: Dr. Seuss: Amazing World and Sculpture Garden
- Springfield: Fame Reaches for McKinley's Head
- Springfield: Graveyard Memorial to the Titanic
- Springfield: History Museum at Springfield Museums
- Springfield: Muffler Man: Uncle Sam
- Springfield: Omiskanoagwiak: Peter Toth Indian Head
- Springfield: Private Monument to Rocky Marciano
- Springfield: Statue of the Inventor of Basketball
- Springfield: Tomb Guarded by Sphinx
- Springfield: Victorian House Grave
- Sterling: Mary's Little Lamb
- Sturbridge: Largest Cuckoo Clock in New England
- Sudbury: Mary's Little Lamb Schoolhouse
- Swansea: Lizzie Borden's Motivation House
- Swansea: Lizzie Borden's Summer House Furniture
- Swansea: Manny Flavors: Former Teen Burger
- Taunton: Her Vacant Chair
- Tyringham: Santarella - Gingerbread House
- Webster: Longest Named Thing in America
- Wellesley: Oldest Football Rivalry Rock
- Wellesley: World's 2nd Largest Rotating Globe
- Wellfleet: Hanging Shark and Smile Face
- Wellfleet: Joe Tweet and the Giant Lobster
- Wenham: Model Trains of Winter
- West Yarmouth: Whydah Pirate Museum
- Westfield: Black Squirrel Town
- Westford: Edgar Allan Poe Was Here
- Westford: The Ship Stone: Knights Templar
- Westford: The Westford Knight
- Weston: Tower Marks Town of Massachusetts Vikings
- Westport: Fork in the Road
- Westport: Trump, SpongeBob, and Other Sculptures
- Whately: Big Cement Milk Bottle
- Whitman: Birthplace of the Chocolate Chip Cookie
- Williamstown: "Eyes" On The Campus Lawn
- Wilmington: Baldwin Apple Monument
- Winchendon: Clyde, Toy Town Horse
- Woburn: USS Maine's Ventilation Cowl
- Worcester: Bancroft Tower - Castle-Lite
- Worcester: Deed to God Rock
- Worcester: Goddard Park: Polaris Missile
- Worcester: Grave of the Smiley Face Inventor
- Worcester: Leprechaun Hat
- Worcester: Sanctum of the Smiley Face
- Worcester: The Notorious Turtle Boy
- Worcester: Wall O' Washingtons
- Yarmouthport: Edward Gorey House
- Yarmouth: Gravestone with a Curse
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Amherst: Giant Foot
- Ashfield: First Maple Syrup in Outer Space
- Assonet: Profile Rock - Indian Chief
- Boston: Cheers Bar Replica
- Boston: Dreamland Wax Museum
- Boston: Giant Padlock and Chain
- Boston: Museum of Dirt
- Dedham: Museum of Bad Art
- Everett: $28.2 Million Statue of Popeye
- Fall River: Train-Augmented McDonald's
- Fitchburg: Top Fun Aviation Toy Museum
- Greenfield: Longview Tower - See 3 States
- Halifax: Waterman Bird Farm
- Holyoke: Holyoke Amusement Park
- Leominster: Magnetic Hill - Gravity Hill
- Leominster: National Plastics Center and Museum
- Lynn: Bunyan Muffler Man
- Marlborough: Small Circus Museum
- Marlborough: Tree Carved Into Waving Ant
- Natick: Jordan's Furniture - Mardi Gras!
- Natick: Museum of World War II
- North Adams: Upside-Down Bathroom
- Onset: World's Largest Thermometer Collection
- Pittsfield: Parking Lot Shipwreck
- Plymouth: Cranberry World
- Reading: Ship House
- Salem: 40 Whacks Museum
- South Hadley: Nash Dino Land
- South Yarmouth: Shark in a Wall
- Springfield: Miracle Virgin Mary in Window
- Stoughton: Stump Tooth Humanoid
- Topsfield: Muffler Man
- Watertown: The Plumbing Museum
- West Springfield: Mr Potato Head Ambassador
- West Yarmouth: Tommy the Elephant
- Whitman: Two Big Cow Heads
- Worcester: Higgins Armory Museum
- Worcester: Pumpkin Mouth
- Yarmouth: Waving Tan Man
