4 Hidden Gems in Boston Most People Walk Right Past
4 landmarks with verified facts and stories
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 Harbor Islands
Harbor Islands, Winthrop, United States
The Boston Harbor Islands are a 34-island national park scattered across Boston Harbor, and the fact that most visitors to Boston have never heard of them is one of the city's great missed opportunities.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
25 Evans Way, Boston, MA 02115
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a Venetian palace in the Fenway filled with masterpieces — and empty frames where masterpieces used to be.
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.
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