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What's the one wicked Massachusetts thing you think visitors should experience?

Amy Gorel

Updated April 21, 2026

Three young visitors to the Boston Tea Party Museum toss crates with the East India Company emblem into Fort Point Channel. (Jesse Costa/WBUR file)

Get a glimpse of the Sacred Cod? Eat a lobster roll on Cape Cod?

Watch for whales, or take a Thoreau-ly refreshing dip in Walden Pond?

As visitors pour into Massachusetts for the World Cup this summer, there's no end of suggestions for things to check out in our great state. Our local readers have recommended walking the Freedom Trail, spending time in Boston's Public Garden, riding a duck boat and taking in Fenway Park.

Now we want your offbeat ideas.

Vacations aren't infinite, so we want to hear from Bay Staters: What do you think is the most Massachusetts thing tourists should experience here? Where's the spot that visitors will remember as so-Boston? What's the experience that made you proud of your home state?

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This article was originally published on April 13, 2026.