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
The Mapparium
Boston, Massachusetts
The world turned inside out as a large glass sphere, for your geographic viewing pleasure.
The Witch Dungeon Museum
Salem, Massachusetts
Features a live witch trial -- well, partly live; most of the cast are showroom dummies -- right where it all happened in 1692. Then visitors tour a recreation of Salem's dungeon, complete with hanged corpses.
Dreamland Wax Museum
Boston, Massachusetts
This 2017 wax museum has all 45 Presidents -- including a pucker-faced Donald Trump -- and an Albert Einstein with amazing hair.
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, dragged to New Hampshire as a slave -- then Hannah had her revenge on her Indian captors. With a tomahawk.
In and Around Boston
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Massachusetts attractions.
- Boston: Ether Dome
- Boston: Dreamland Wax Museum
- Boston: Democratic Donkey, Republican Footprints [tips]
- Boston: Golden Teapot [tips]
- Boston: Mother Goose's Gravesite [tips]
- Boston: Irish Potato Famine Memorial
- Boston: Statue of JFK: Going Places
- Boston: Future VP Elbridge Gerry Invents the Gerrymander
- Boston: Cheers Bar Replica [tips]
- Boston: Big Cigar [tips]
- Boston: Big Teddy Bear Statue [tips]
- Boston: The Skinny House [tips]
- Boston: Edgar Allan Poe Statue [tips]
- Boston: Molasses Flood Plaque
- Boston: Ether Monument
- Boston: All Saints Way - Wall of Saints [tips]
- Boston: Hood Milk Bottle Building [tips]
- Boston: Dinosaur - T. Rex Statue [tips]
- Boston: World's Largest Van De Graff Generator [tips]
- Charlestown: Sawed-Off Head of Andrew Jackson [tips]
- Boston: The Partisans - Bony Horsemen Statue [tips]
