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Echo Bridge

A historic bridge with a lovely acoustic anomaly.

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Star Market

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.

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Battle Dioramas at Newton City Hall

These impressively detailed battle scenes depict the violence and tragedy of war in miniature.

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The Plumbing Museum

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

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Watertown, Massachusetts

Art of Jack Kevorkian

The macabre paintings created by famous suicide proponent Jack Kevorkian, or "Dr. Death."

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Watertown, Massachusetts

Armenian Library and Museum of America

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

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Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

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