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History & Culture

• Massachusetts Historical Society
• Commonwealth of Massachusetts
• iBoston - Boston History & Architecture
• Mass Vacation - official state tourism site
• WorcesterMass.com

Cemeteries & Gravestone Studies

• Massachusetts Cemetery Directory
• Cape Cod Gravestones
• Worcester County Cemeteries
• Tombstone Transcription Project

Highways, Byways & Roadside Attractions

• Roadside America - Massachusetts
• Big Indian Shop
• Elephant Statue
• The Paper House
• Museum of Bad Art
• American Sanitary Plumbing Museum
• Museum of Dirt
• Strange Crosswalk at Alewife Station
• Jenny Lind Tower - in Truro
• Cottage City & the Tabernacle - in Martha's Vineyard
• John Harvard Statue - "The statue of three lies"
• Hammond Castle Museum - in Gloucster
• Motif No. 1 - in Rockport
• Babson's Revolving Globe - at Babson College (Map & Globe Museum also on campus)
• Tyringham Art Gallery
• The Sea Bee - formerly  in Allendale Shopping Center, now at Cal State Fullerton
• Warren Anatomical Museum - includes the skull of Phineas Gage, the man with the rod thru his head
• Porter Thermometer Museum
• Whydah Museum - exhibit based on the pirate ship The Whydah
• Nash Dinosaur Land
• Bancroft Tower - in Worcester
• Higgins Armory Museum - medieval armor in Worcester
• Reel Lawn Mower History & Preservation Project
• The Skinny House - in Boston (note: private residence, please no trespassing)
• Lowell Textile Mills - the Industrial Revolution started here
• Dr. Spooky’s Animal Museum – a cross between a zoo and a haunted house
• George’s Rocks – the Rock, Fossil and Dinosaur Shop with the caveman out front!
• The Mohawk Trail – almost a hundred miles of exploration along Rt. 2
• The Natural Bridge – in North Adams, an all marble expansion over the Hudson Brook
• Boston’s Modern Must-Sees – unusual sites around the Boston area (may need to register to read article – it’s free)

Legends

• The Legend of Chief Graylock
• Captain Kidd: Pirate's Treasure Buried in the Connecticut River
• Yet Another Site For Kidd's Treasure
• Angel of Hadley: Fact or Myth?
• Of Pirates and Treasures
• The Greenwich Goldmine
• Legend of the Giant Beaver
• Scituate's "Lighthouse Army of Two"
• Kilroy Was Here - the legend of James Kilroy, a shipyard inspector from Quincy
• The Boston Massacre
• The Redheaded Hitchhiker of Route 44

Local Color

• The Molasses Disaster
• Man Is Sure: It's A Gator - an alligator in a local Massachusetts pond?
• Unincorporated and Unofficial Names of Massachusetts Communities
• Indian Place Names of Massachusetts
• The Wicked Good Guide to Boston English
• Bunghole Liquors - two locations! Salem and Peabody
• Masshole.net - dedicated to the US' worse drivers
• Town of Stotham - a photographic hoax 
• Bizarro Boston - everything weird and unusual about Boston - good site.
• Things Get Curiouser and Curiouser... - article about weird stuff in Central Massachusetts and Connecticut
• Bizarre Berkshires - Weird stories courtesy of Joe Durwin

People

• Lizzie Bordon - Fall River
• The Strange Tale of Asa Snow
• Edward Dotey - he and Edward Leister engaged in the first American duel
• Lord Timothy Dexter
• Jack Kerouac - Lowell's favorite son
• Deborah Sampson - from Sharon, the first female soldier in the Continental Army
• Joseph Palmer - persecuted for wearing a beard in Fitchburg
• Hannah Dustin
• Rev. John Murry Spear - & his "God Machine"
• Charlie on the MTA - the story behind the song
• Albert DeSalvo - aka The Boston Strangler 
• Nathaniel Bar-Jonah - aka David Brown, pedophile serial killer from Cranky Yankee's hometown of Webster, MA
• Noel Dube - Pepperell, MA religious shrine
• Clara Jepson - seer of Western Massachusetts; story by Joe Durwin

Places & Explorations

• Field Journal: A Record of Excursions & Adventures in Massachusetts - amazing exploration site by  Daniel V. Boudillion
• Northampton State Hospital
• "The Hospital of Seven Teeth" - somewhere in MA
• Purgatory Chasm State Park - not to be confused with Purgatory Chasm in Rhode Island
• Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg - the longest named lake in the U.S.
• Dighton Rock - in Berkeley on the Taunton River
• Dungeon Rock - in Lynn
• Natural Bridge State Park - the only natural marble bridge in the U.S.
• Dogtown - in Gloucester
• Bish-Bash Falls - at Mt. Washington
• Danvers State Insane Asylum
• Hoosac Tunnel - history page
• Remnants of Abandoned Stations, Tunnels, and Station Entrances found on the MBTA
• Quabbin Resevoir

Phenomena

• The Dover Demon
• Massachusetts UFO Network
• Bridgewater Triangle and Hockomock Swamp
• I Want To Believe - paranormal adventures in the Bridgewater Triangle, including the Red Headed Hitchhiker

Ghosts & Hauntings

• Hollow Hills - Boston & Vicinity
• Spider Gates Cemetery - in Leicester
• Massachusetts Ghost Hunting Society
• Ghost Towns of Massachusetts
• Cape and Islands Paranormal Research Society
• Massachusetts Paranormal Crossroads
• New England Ghost Tours

Witches

• Salem Witch Museum
• Salem Witchcraft Trials
• Salem Witch Trials
• Salem Witch Trials - Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
• 17th Century Witch in Hadley

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