New Hampshire
Find New Hampshire travel tips, stories, maps, videos and news for unusual tourist attractions and sights.
Top Rated Attractions
Clark's Bears
Lincoln, New Hampshire
New England's classic roadside attraction, where bears eat ice cream and a train full of tourists is attacked by a hairy mutant.
Woodman Museum: Quirky Relics
Dover, New Hampshire
Four buildings of exhibits, including a four-legged chicken, a man-eating clam, and a blackjack used to kill a New Hampshire bank teller in 1897.
USS Albacore, Submarine in a Ditch
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
A super-secret experimental submarine, docked in a trench to protect it from Portsmouth's tidal flows (supposedly).
Museum of Dumb Guy Stuff
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Hundreds of converted action figures, dioramas, and a kitbashed train layout fill the basement of a 200-year-old house. Is it dumb-guy stuff or dumb guy-stuff?
Hannah Duston Massacre Site Statue
Boscawen, New Hampshire
The first non-allegorical woman to get a statue in America. It marks the spot where, according to local lore, a kidnapped pioneer mom turned the hatchet on her murdering captors.
92-Foot-Tall Mercury Redstone Rocket Replica
Concord, New Hampshire
A well-done lookalike, erected to honor New Hampshire's most famous spaceman, Alan Shepard.
Doorstep Defended by Franklin Pierce, Vacant Lot Where He Died
Concord, New Hampshire
Defiant 14th President Franklin Pierce died in 1869 in the house that once stood at this spot.
Santa's Village
Jefferson, New Hampshire
One of a string of surviving Storybook and Santa-themed parks across New England. Has a noteworthy array of nightmare-scale statuary.
American Classic Arcade Museum
Laconia, New Hampshire
Pac-Man. Donky Kong. Battlezone. Is that a roll of quarters in your pocket, or are you just happy to be back in a video game arcade?
Trunkations
Roadside America's blog, offering news, rants and ruminations on the state of New Hampshire
Previous: Nevada | Next: New Jersey
Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of New Hampshire attractions.
- Boscawen: Hannah Duston Massacre Site Statue
- Concord: 92-Foot-Tall Mercury Redstone Rocket Replica
- Concord: Pedal A Rail Bike [tips]
- Concord: Doorstep Defended by Franklin Pierce, Vacant Lot Where He Died
- Dover: Woodman Museum: Quirky Relics
- Hampton: Giant Pirate [tips]
- Hinsdale: House Covered in License Plates [tips]
- Jefferson: Santa's Village
- Keene: Teacher's Desk Tombstone [tips]
- Laconia: American Classic Arcade Museum
- Lincoln: Clark's Bears
- Lincoln: Alien Abduction Gas Station [tips]
- Littleton: Statue of Pollyanna [tips]
- Madison: America's Largest Glacial Traveler [tips]
- Manchester: Sit With the Father of Video Games
- New Castle: Pose Inside Outdoor Picture Frame [tips]
- Pinkham Notch: Mt. Washington Auto Road: Famous Bumper Sticker
- Pinkham Notch: World's Worst Weather Museum [tips]
- Portsmouth: USS Albacore, Submarine in a Ditch
- Portsmouth: Museum of Dumb Guy Stuff
- Rumney: Polar Caves [tips]
- Salem: America's Stonehenge
- Warren: Only Town With a Real Redstone Missile [tips]
- Wolfeboro: Wright Museum of WWII History [tips]