The Atlas Obscura Guide To Montpelier

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Montpelier, Vermont

Updated April 13, 2021

Unusual Attractions in Montpelier

Montpelier, Vermont

Green Mount Cemetery

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

The Challenger Memorial at its prior home along Memorial Park. A block of South African granite serves as the surface for the illustration of The Challenger, while the other lists the names of the astronauts who perished in the explosion.

Montpelier, Vermont

Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial

A lonely memorial to the Challenger Space Shuttle, honoring the astronauts who died in 1986.

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A not-quite-exact replica of Michelangelo’s Pieta. (Wikimedia Commons)

Barre, Vermont

Hope Cemetery

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

5 miles from Montpelier

Graniteville, Vermont

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

8 miles from Montpelier

Williamstown, Vermont

Knight's Spider Web Farm

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

10 miles from Montpelier

Waterbury, Vermont

Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

10 miles from Montpelier

Waterbury, Vermont

Ricker Basin

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

13 miles from Montpelier

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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Montpelier

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Montpelier, Vermont

Updated April 13, 2021

Unusual Attractions in Montpelier

Montpelier, Vermont

Green Mount Cemetery

Montpelier, Vermont

Space Shuttle Challenger Memorial

Barre, Vermont

Hope Cemetery

Graniteville, Vermont

Rock of Ages Granite Quarry

Williamstown, Vermont

Knight's Spider Web Farm

Waterbury, Vermont

Ben & Jerry's Flavor Graveyard

Waterbury, Vermont

Ricker Basin

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