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Josh W.

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Come discover the world with me. Japanese born, American raised, traveling the Earth, and helping others along the way.

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Steaming Tender Restaurant

Palmer, Massachusetts

Steaming Tender Restaurant

This former abandoned train station converted into a restaurant and small museum is a delight for both casual diners and rail enthusiasts alike.

Spooner Well

Brookfield, Massachusetts

Spooner Well

Monument on the spot where in 1778, Bathsheba Spooner had her husband Joshua killed and dumped down his own well.

Boston Liberty Tree

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston Liberty Tree

The former site of an all-but-forgotten colonial landmark is now remembered by an often overlooked bas relief.

Harvard Plaque on the History of the Smoot.

Boston, Massachusetts

Harvard Bridge Smoot Measurements

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

Exterior of the building.

Newburyport, Massachusetts

Newburyport Maritime Museum

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

Harvard Bridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Harvard Bridge

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

Brookline, Massachusetts

Larz Anderson Auto Museum

Inside a grand Victorian-era carriage house is the oldest automobile collection in the United States.

Timothy Dexter’s William Pitt Statue

Newburyport, Massachusetts

Timothy Dexter’s William Pitt Statue

The last surviving life-size sculpture owned by eccentric 18th century businessman and self-styled "Lord Timothy Dexter" who once decorated his home with 40 of these.

Balanced Rock

North Salem, New York

Balanced Rock

Glacial erratic or man-made dolmen? It probably wasn't druids.

Gloucester Sea Serpent Statue

Gloucester, Massachusetts

Gloucester Sea Serpent Statue

This sculpture is dedicated to a famed cryptid and local icon allegedly witnessed in the early 19th century.

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers

New Braintree, Massachusetts

Siege of Brookfield Historic Markers

Solitary stones tell the story of an early battle in one of colonial America’s most brutal and forgotten wars.

Dorchester Heights Monument

Boston, Massachusetts

Dorchester Heights Monument

This marble tower commemorates the first victory of George Washington and a major turning point in the American Revolution

Fook C. Kan Plaque

Boston, Massachusetts

Fook C. Kan Plaque

This plaque, dedicated to a fallen journeyman carpenter, is filled with errors and mystery

'Glove Cycle'

Cambridge, Massachusetts

'Glove Cycle'

Dozens of bronze glove sculptures symbolizing loss and life decorate a busy Cambridge subway station

Crispus Attucks Bridge

Framingham, Massachusetts

Crispus Attucks Bridge

This bridge is dedicated to an escaped slave and one of the first people killed in the American Revolution

‘Time Wave’ by Robert Ellison.

Providence, Rhode Island

‘Time Wave’

A work of art that pays homage to a Victorian timepiece in Providence.

The Turk's Head adorning the third floor.

Providence, Rhode Island

Turk's Head Building

The stone sculpture of an Ottoman soldier is an homage to a lost Providence landmark.

Haven Brothers Diner

Providence, Rhode Island

Haven Brothers Diner

From horses to stainless-steel trucks, this iconic Providence burger wagon is one of the oldest mobile diners in the country.

"Superman Building."

Providence, Rhode Island

Industrial National Bank Building

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Lovecraft Arts & Sciences in the Arcade plaza.

Providence, Rhode Island

Weird Providence (formerly Lovecraft Arts & Sciences)

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

The interior of the hotel.

Providence, Rhode Island

Providence Biltmore

Rumors of the occult haunt this upscale 1920s hotel.

The Mother Church

Boston, Massachusetts

The First Church of Christ, Scientist

This impressive Boston holy house is the American mecca for Christian scientists.

Salem Witch House

Salem, Massachusetts

The Witch House of Salem

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

Prospect Hill Monument

Somerville, Massachusetts

Prospect Hill Monument

Earliest version of the American flag can be seen atop the hill where it first flew.

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