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Cambridge, Massachusetts
The Trophy Room Project
An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.
42.3615, -71.0753
Boston, Massachusetts
Leonard A. Grimes Residence
The Boston home of a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
42.3602, -71.0686
Boston, Massachusetts
Lewis and Harriet Hayden House
Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.
42.3602, -71.0691
Boston, Massachusetts
Charles Sumner Birthplace Plaque
A plaque marking the famous abolitionist's birthplace often overlooked by visitors to the nearby Charles Sumner House.
42.3596, -71.0661
Boston, Massachusetts
Democratic Donkey and Republican Footprints
This statue intended for children to enjoy became a minor political spat.
42.3581, -71.0592
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.
42.3717, -71.1401
Boston, Massachusetts
King's Chapel Crypt
A more than 260-year-old crypt built on Boston's oldest English burial ground.
42.3581, -71.0600
Boston, Massachusetts
The Sacred Cod
No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...
42.3588, -71.0638
Boston, Massachusetts
The Great Spring
A tiny plaque marks the location of the water source that facilitated the birth of modern-day Boston.
42.3574, -71.0578
Boston, Massachusetts
George Middleton House
Historic home of a Black veteran of the American Revolution and one of the earliest civil rights activists in the United States.
42.3589, -71.0653
Boston, Massachusetts
Quentin Compson Memorial
A real plaque marks the spot where a Faulknerian character committed fictional suicide.
42.3690, -71.1232
Boston, Massachusetts
Charles Dickens' Door and Mirror
These items are all that remain from the room used by the author during his second tour of the U.S.
42.3578, -71.0605
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Irish Famine Memorial
Dedicated to one of the darkest moments in Irish history.
42.3574, -71.0586
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston Athenaeum Skin Book
A morbid secret lies hidden within the beautiful walls of the Boston Athenaeum.
42.3581, -71.0623
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Kendall Band
A three-piece musical sculpture installed between the subway tracks at Kendall Station near MIT.
42.3625, -71.0856
Boston, Massachusetts
Tremont Temple
The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.
42.3576, -71.0607
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston's Old Burying Grounds
Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.
42.3573, -71.0613
Boston, Massachusetts
Grave of Christopher Seider
This headstone marks the grave of an 11-year-old boy killed during clashes in the streets over the boycotting of British goods.
42.3574, -71.0617
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Modica Way
An alley way dedicated to graffiti and street art is a constantly changing street gallery.
42.3649, -71.1022
Boston, Massachusetts
Statue of Mary Dyer
Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.
42.3575, -71.0637
Boston, Massachusetts
George Parkman House
The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.
42.3577, -71.0658
Worcester, Massachusetts
Higgins Armory Museum
Once a private collection, now the only museum of arms and armor in the Western Hemisphere - CLOSED.
42.2991, -71.7990
Watertown, Massachusetts
Julia Ward Howe's Grave
The final resting place of a suffragist author.
42.3705, -71.1461
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Site of the First Transcontinental Call
This plaque commemorates the call between Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson.
42.3623, -71.0950
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