Off the Bricks
Sourced walking hunts through the parts of Boston the red brick line skips. Read a riddle, walk to the thing, type what you see, get the true story.
Right now
- After Dark
The answers still read at 9 p.m. Bring a phone light. - Bad Ends
Molasses, gallows and grave robbers. It's the month for it.
The walks
- 00The 1852 Hunt3 KM · 120 MIN
FREEBoston's fire alarm telegraph, read off the boxes - 01Under Boston3.9 KM · 150 MINMail tubes, ghost platforms and buildings that only breathe
- 02Bad Ends6.2 KM · 180 MINMolasses, gallows, grave robbers, ether and a lot of bones
- 06Banned in Boston3 KM · 145 MINThe censors, the court cases, and the places people went anyway
- 10Shot Here5.6 KM · 175 MIN
FREEWhere Boston's movies were really filmedBoston filming locations, and what was really shot somewhere else
Collections
- Legends Busted The story everybody tells, then what the record says. The record usually wins.
- Wrong Signs Plaques, signs and official records that have it wrong, or can't agree with each other.
- After Dark Stops where the answer and the story both still work at 9 p.m.
- Under Your Feet Tunnels, mail tubes, buried shoreline and the made land you're standing on.
- Firsts (Contested) Boston says it did it first. Sometimes Boston is right.
- Crime Scenes Robberies, hangings, frauds and the courtrooms that sorted them out.