The Atlas Obscura Guide To Watertown

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

Updated November 8, 2016

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Watertown, Massachusetts

Armenian Museum of America

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

Watertown, Massachusetts

Julia Ward Howe's Grave

The final resting place of a suffragist author.

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Newton, Massachusetts

John Eliot Memorial

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

1 mile from Watertown

Newton, Massachusetts

Star Market

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

1 mile from Watertown

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

1 mile from Watertown

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Graves of Henry and William James

Final resting place of the author who wrote the ghost story "The Turn of the Screw," and his brother, the Harvard doctor and paranormal investigator.

2 miles from Watertown

Waltham, Massachusetts

Lyman Estate Greenhouses

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

2 miles from Watertown

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