Arnold Arboretum
125 Arborway, Jamaica Hills, Boston, 02130, United States
The Arnold Arboretum is 281 acres of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace — a living museum of 15,000 trees, shrubs, and vines from around the world, owned by Harvard University and free to the public every day of the year under the terms of a unique 1,000-year lease signed in 1872.
Boston Common
139 Tremont St, Boston Common, Boston, 02111, United States
Boston Common is the oldest public park in America — set aside for communal use in 1634, four years after the city was founded and 142 years before anyone thought to declare independence.
Boston Public Garden
4 Charles St, Boston, MA 02116
The Boston Public Garden is the first public botanical garden in America — created in 1837 on land that was tidal marsh until the 1830s, and now a 24-acre Victorian garden that sits next to Boston Common but feels like an entirely different world.
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.
Bunker Hill Monument
Monument Sq, Charlestown, MA 02129
The Bunker Hill Monument is a 221-foot granite obelisk marking the site of the first major battle of the American Revolution — fought on June 17, 1775, just two months after Lexington and Concord.
Charles River Esplanade
Boston, United States
The Esplanade is a three-mile ribbon of parkland along the Charles River basin that serves as Boston's running track, cycling path, and outdoor living room from April through October.
Freedom Trail
Boston Common Visitor Center, 139 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02111
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Granary Burying Ground
1 Tremont St, Boston, MA 02108
The Granary Burying Ground is where the American Revolution is buried — literally.
USS Constitution
The Neck, Boston, 02129, United States
The USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat in the world — launched in 1797, she fought in the Barbary Wars and the War of 1812, and earned the nickname 'Old Ironsides' when British cannonballs were seen bouncing off her oak hull during an engagement with HMS Guerriere in 1812.
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