Here Are The 12 Weirdest Places You Can Possibly Go In Massachusetts

Since 1932, this collection of oddities and eccentric goods has been inspiring wonder. First assembled by the philanthropist Joseph Allen Skinner, this collection includes over 7,000 objects that are connected only by their shared weirdness. The collection includes stuffed birds, antique guns, odd kitchen implements, Native American artifacts, and elaborate model ships. The museum is now maintained by Mount Holyoke College.

This rock has been a mystery since its discovery by Europeans in 1690. Covered in intricate and indecipherable symbols, Dighton Rock has been theorized to be the handiwork of everyone from the ancient Phoenicians to Chinese explorers. More recent speculation holds that the markings are likely Native American. Today, you can visit the rock in a museum at Dighton Rock State park.

This house was the result of a neighborly dispute taken to extreme lengths. In 1908, Francis O'Reilly tried to sell a his tiny parcel of land to his neighbor. The land wasn't large enough to build on (or so everyone assumed), so the neighbor refused to buy. Angered by this, O'Reilly built a teensy house on the small strip of property just to spite his neighbor. The house is 37 feet long and 8 feet wide. It is currently occupied by an interior design firm.

Warren Anatomical Museum collection includes a set of conjoined fetal skeletons, papier-maché anatomically accurate eyes, the inhaler used in the first ever ether-assisted procedure, and an exploded skull. The museum is also the home of the skull of Phineas Gage, a man who took a 13-pound iron rod through the head, and was an invaluable source of information regarding how the brain works.

This one is for all those people who have ever visited an art museum and scoffed, "I could do that." The Museum of Bad Art is the world's only museum dedicated to collecting and showcasing really bad art. Their first piece was acquired from a literal trash can in 1994. Since then, MOBA has expanded into two galleries and features all sorts of truly ugly works of art. Check out the museum in the basement of the Somerville Theater.

This house is entirely constructed of newspaper. Okay, well almost – the fireplace isn't made of paper, for obvious reasons. Built by Elis F. Stenman in 1922 as a summer home, the structure and its furniture are composed of over 100,000 varnished newspapers. Visitors are welcome to tour the home. It's particularly fun to read the old headlines and advertisements on the ancient periodicals.

The world's tiniest museum is right here in Massachusetts. It's eight inches deep, only sixteen inches long, and located next to a Subway sandwich shop. For real. Head curator Judith Klausner (no word as to how big the staff is) has included pieces from local artists that express the local flavor and beauty of New England. There's usually no line to get into this museum, and admission is free.

This is another one of those "spite" houses. Only ten feet across and 30 feet deep, this house was built just after the Civil War. The story goes that a soldier returned from the fighting to find that his brother had built a large house on the property they had jointly inherited from their father. In revenge, the soldier built an incredibly skinny home on the remainder of their land in order to block sunlight to his brother's property. Today, the home is privately owned (and lived in!), but visitors can certainly check out the home from the street.