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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Watertown

4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Watertown, Massachusetts

Updated November 8, 2016

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Watertown, Massachusetts

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.

Watertown, Massachusetts

Armenian Museum of America

Large Massachusetts museum dedicated to Armenian history and culture.

Watertown, Massachusetts

Julia Ward Howe's Grave

The final resting place of a suffragist author.
Permanently Closed

Watertown, Massachusetts

Art of Jack Kevorkian

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

John Eliot Memorial

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.
1 mile from Watertown

Newton, Massachusetts

Star Market

This supermarket is suspended 25 feet above an interstate highway.
1 mile from Watertown

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Mount Auburn Cemetery

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.
1 mile from Watertown
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