Places thefroghag Wants to Go

This Cape Cod museum exhibits what it claims is the only authenticated pirate treasure in the world.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

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

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

An elaborate, hidden model train in the Needham Town Forest.

This tall Massachusetts folly got its name thanks to all of the purple prose its vistas inspired.

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

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

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

Hut with supplies for shipwreck survivors.

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

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

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

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

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

This roadside attraction attracts kids with dinosaurs before blindsiding them with geology.

A coastal rock outcrop with mysterious inscriptions variously attributed to Native Americans, Portuguese, Phoenicians, Norse, and more.

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

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

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

Painstakingly built dioramas sit unnoticed in a Boston office building.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

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

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