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4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Newton, Massachusetts

Updated December 16, 2020
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Echo Bridge

Newton, Massachusetts

Echo Bridge

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.
Star Market jutting out over the highway

Newton, Massachusetts

Star Market

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
Battle Dioramas at Newton City Hall

Newton, Massachusetts

Battle Dioramas at Newton City Hall

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.
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John Eliot Memorial

Newton, Massachusetts

John Eliot Memorial

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.
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Watertown, Massachusetts

Armenian Museum of America

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.
2 miles from Newton

Boston, Massachusetts

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.
2 miles from Newton
A mechanical collage at the museum.

Waltham, Massachusetts

Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation

A steampunk wonderland that preserves America's history of industrial innovation.
2 miles from Newton
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