Weird day trips from Boston

The strangest Boston finds are often a short drive out. These 5 day trips — Museum of Printing, Paper House, Dogtown Common & the Babson Boulders and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.

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Museum of Printing A single-obsession archive of printing and typography built from equipment rescued from the Boston Globe's ho… Haverhill
Paper House A house that Swedish mechanical engineer Elis F. Stenman built between 1922 and 1924 with walls insulated in… Rockport
Dogtown Common & the Babson Boulders A 3,600-acre stretch of forest reclaimed from a settlement abandoned by the early 1800s, riddled with numbere… Gloucester / Rockport (Cape Ann)
Oakland Mill Constructed in 1850 by John L. Ross, the Oakland Mill was a thriving stone textile mill in Burrillville, Rhod… Oakland
Tenney Castle ruins Perched atop a hill in Greycourt State Park, these are the remains of Grey Court (also known as Tenney Castle… Methuen