Boston Public Library
700 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116
The Boston Public Library was the first large free municipal library in the United States when it was founded in 1852, and the main building on Copley Square — a Renaissance Revival palazzo designed by Charles Follen McKim in 1895 — is one of the most beautiful public buildings in America.
Mapparium at Mary Baker Eddy Library
200 Massachusetts Ave, Kenmore, Boston, 02115, United States
The Mapparium is a three-story stained-glass globe that you walk through on a glass bridge — and it's one of the most disorienting, beautiful, and acoustically bizarre experiences in Boston.
MIT Campus
77 Massachusetts Ave, MIT, Cambridge, 02139, United States
MIT's campus is a walk through 20th and 21st-century architecture that happens to also be one of the world's great engineering universities.
North End (Little Italy)
North End, Boston, 02113, United States
The North End is Boston's oldest residential neighbourhood and its most delicious — a dense tangle of narrow streets packed with Italian restaurants, bakeries, espresso bars, and salumerias that has been the heart of Boston's Italian-American community since immigrants from Sicily and Naples began arriving in the 1860s.
Explore culture in Boston
GPS-guided narration at every landmark. Tap a spot on the map, hear the story. Every fact verified.