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.
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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: Asaroton: Trash in the Pavement [tips]
- 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