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True Lies

The real-life setting of a familiar horror story you didn't think was true

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Birthplace of Edgar Allan Poe
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The Tell-Tale Plaque

The real birthplace of an author you thought was from somewhere else

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Faneuil Hall
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Secret Weapons

A military museum you never knew was there

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First Pitch

Visit the site of baseball's first World Series (it's not where you think).

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Game On!
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Smash Hits

The baseball secret in the basement of a Fenway bar

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Martini Junction
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Underground Railroad

A tiny rail stop as far off the beaten track as you can get

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Longfellow House
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Poetic Injustice

The inglorious fate of a famous tree

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House of Blues the Foundation Room
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Private Party

How to get in on the VIP club at a hip live-music venue

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Boston Marathon museum
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Run's House

An unknown museum devoted to the Boston Marathon

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Hemingway Room, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum
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The Old Man and the Secret

Where to find Ernest Hemingway's stuff

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