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This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

A mysterious stone embedded at the base of a historic Boston building.

A dollhouse full of taxidermy rodents, each one handcrafted and given a sordid past.

The pleasant woodland cemetery that has inspired more than its fair share of wild legends.

Founded by the famed children's book artist, this museum spreads an appreciation of the arts through picture books.

It was an experiment to prove that glacial boulders and rocks can be used in constructions and dwelling.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

Rumored to have tormented a family in the late 1960s, this toy now resides in a quiet little oddities shop.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

According to legend, Bob Dylan sneaks in twice a year to eat dinner with Jack.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

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

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

The filming location of a shark attack in Steven Spielberg’s famous shark movie.

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

A museum dedicated exclusively to the lore and history of ouija boards.

From bench to vandalism to art, this silly prank seat was funny enough to become permanent.

This is the house that spite built.

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