Boston, Massachusetts Attractions
Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Boston and the surrounding area. It's the city to see an inside-out world globe (circa 1935), a giant milk bottle, and a statue of Edgar Allan Poe in one day. Traffic is murderously slow, but it's almost worth it to reach the deadly molasses flood memorial or the ether monument.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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.
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.
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.
In and Around Boston
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Massachusetts attractions.
- Rockport: The Paper House
- Boston: Museum of Bad Art
- Boston: Ether Dome
- Boston: Democratic Donkey, Republican Footprints [tips]
- Boston: Golden Teapot [tips]
- Boston: Mother Goose's Gravesite [tips]
- Boston: Irish Potato Famine Memorial
- Boston: Hub of the Universe
- Boston: Statue of JFK: Going Places
- Boston: Future VP Elbridge Gerry Invents the Gerrymander
- Boston: Bobby Orr Statue [tips]
- Boston: Big Cigar [tips]
- Boston: Big Teddy Bear Statue [tips]
- Boston: The Skinny House [tips]
- Boston: Edgar Allan Poe Statue [tips]
- Boston: Great Molasses Flood of 1919 - Plaque
- Boston: Ether Monument
- Boston: All Saints Way - Wall of Saints [tips]
- Boston: Hood Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Boston: Big Head of Arthur Fiedler
- Boston: Dinosaur - T. Rex Statue [tips]
