Self-Guided Tours in Worcester

Seven stops tracing the mills, minds, and monuments that built New England's second city.

Rights, romance, wrenches, and rockets - Worcester's habit of being first

Three very different films, American Hustle, Surrogates, and Confess Fletch, all found Worcester's train station, courthouse square, and old municipal buildings ready-made for the camera

The downtown halls and one hilltop cemetery where Worcester argued for freedom

A stone tower, an asylum campus, a spider-gated graveyard, and a legendary Victorian mansion

From the 1843 hilltop hall the college was founded inside to the arena at the bottom of the hill

A driving tour through Worcester's working diners and the factory that built the American diner

From a tornado-forced relocation in 1956 to the 185-acre Salisbury Street campus of today

From the hall where Freud lectured in 1909 to the library named for a Clark-trained rocket pioneer

From a downtown health-sciences campus added in 2000 to the 1857 concert hall a few blocks away

From a tornado-cleared mill village to Worcester's largest community college campus

From a 1962 sixteen-student founding class to a Nobel Prize-winning research campus on Lake Quinsigamond

A walk through Worcester's ballpark, its downtown arena, and the bakery behind its hometown pie

From the 1868 clock tower to a bronze goat, tracing 150 years of WPI's Institute Hill campus

From an 1874 teacher-training school to a 58-acre Chandler Street campus of libraries, dorms, and a repurposed synagogue