Simon's Intersting Things To Do

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

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

Museum dedicated to awful artwork.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Oldest house in downtown Boston was once the home of Paul Revere.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The railroad tunnel nicknamed the "Bloody Pit" for taking the lives of hundreds during its construction.

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

Naturally formed white marble arch housed in an abandoned marble quarry from the 1800s.

Grave of the man allegedly responsible for a series of infamous murders in Boston in the 1960s.

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

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This massive World War II calculator hearkens back to the days when "computer" was a job title.

The oldest working bell set in North America, the bells at Old North Church sat silent for their first four years in Massachusetts.

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.

An interesting decoration on this historic site, this weathervane comes with as many legends as it does questions.

The ceiling of this vintage movie palace is covered in fantastic Art Deco murals.