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The Dutch House

This Dutch-styled residential building was originally a cocoa company's World's Fair showpiece.

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Cypress Street Playground

The oldest playground in America.

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Last Known Whereabouts of Barbara Newhall Follett

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

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Jamaica Pond Bench

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

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Boston, Massachusetts

Warren Anatomical Museum

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

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Boston, Massachusetts

Lucy Parsons Center

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

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Boston, Massachusetts

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (The Gardner)

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman with an addiction.

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1 mile from Brookline

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