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
Mixed dummy/live witch trial -- right where it all happened in 1692. Visitors tour a recreation of Salem's dungeon, complete with hanged corpses.
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 Indian captors. With a tomahawk.
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.
In and Around Boston
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Massachusetts attractions.
- 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: Statue of JFK: Going Places
- Boston: Future VP Elbridge Gerry Invents the Gerrymander
- 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: Dinosaur - T. Rex Statue [tips]
- Boston: World's Largest Van De Graff Generator [tips]
- Boston: Potato Sack Monument [tips]
- Charlestown: Sawed-Off Head of Andrew Jackson [tips]
- East Boston: Tour a Lightship [tips]
- Boston: Glow-in-the-Dark Swings [tips]
