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Places worth the detour in Massachusetts

Detourmap lists 62 places in Massachusetts, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Nantucket. 51 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Nature39 Archaeological23
Places
62
Oldest
Russell Garrison 1675
Little known
51 of 62
Share of United States
2%

Massachusetts 62

All 62, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Massachusetts?

Nantucket. Island of Massachusetts, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Massachusetts?

62: 39 nature & landscapes and 23 archaeological & historic sites. 51 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Massachusetts?

Russell Garrison, dated to 1675. 11 of the 62 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Massachusetts here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Massachusetts if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Massachusetts is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.