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Star Market jutting out over the highway

Newton, Massachusetts

Star Market

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

Rainbow Swash

Boston, Massachusetts

Rainbow Swash

The world's largest piece of copyrighted artwork.

The stone marker, with replicas of the company's original jars.

Somerville, Massachusetts

Emerson’s Pickle Factory Plaque

This unassuming stone commemorates a condiment factory gone up in smoke.

Mary Had a Little Lamb statue

Sterling, Massachusetts

Mary Had a Little Lamb Statue

This wooly sculpture supposedly marks the birthplace of a famous nursery rhyme, or not.

Harvard Lampoon building.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Lampoon Building

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

Joseph Palmer's grave

Leominster, Massachusetts

Grave of Joseph Palmer

The right to a full beard is honored by the grave of a man who was attacked and jailed due to his facial hair.

Boston Lighthouse

Hull, Massachusetts

Boston Lighthouse

A lighthouse on a diminutive island was one of the first of its kind to guide seamen home.

Burnside Fountain - Turtle Boy

Worcester, Massachusetts

Burnside Fountain - Turtle Boy

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

The Redstone Schoolhouse

Sudbury, Massachusetts

The Redstone Schoolhouse

This classic red schoolhouse is said to have been where Mary and her little lamb went to school.

Plimoth Patuxet

Plymouth, Massachusetts

Plimoth Patuxet

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Endicott Pear Tree.

Danvers, Massachusetts

Endicott Pear Tree

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

The main entrance.

Quincy, Massachusetts

First Dunkin' Donuts

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

Georges Island

Hull, Massachusetts

Georges Island

Civil War Fort on an island in the Boston Harbor.

Faneuil Hall

Boston, Massachusetts

Faneuil Hall

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The Old Power House

Somerville, Massachusetts

Old Powder House

Rising 30 feet in the air atop Quarry Hill, the Old Powder House is the oldest stone building in the state of Massachusetts.

The Orchard House.

Concord, Massachusetts

Orchard House

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

Huts on Georges Island

Hull, Massachusetts

Hut of Refuge

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Paper House

Rockport, Massachusetts

Paper House

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

The Earl of Sandwich
Permanently Closed

Boston, Massachusetts

The Earl of Sandwich

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

“Revere and Sons” visible at the top of the bell

Boston, Massachusetts

Site of Boston's First Bell

The first bell ever cast in Boston was cast by Paul Revere...and sounded terrible.

The tea kettle at E Badger and Sons Cambridge, MA

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Tea Kettle

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Artist's signature

Saugus, Massachusetts

Skull Cliff

The macabre graffiti spectacle in a quarry in a Massachusetts forest reservation.

Outer Wall of Fort Standish

Hull, Massachusetts

Fort Standish

Overgrown ruins of a turn of the century island fort that sees very few visitors.

The Pink House, circa 1980

Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts

Martha's Vineyard Gingerbread Houses

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

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