Back Bay
Boston, United States
Back Bay is Boston's most architecturally cohesive neighbourhood — a grid of Victorian brownstone rowhouses built on filled land in the second half of the 19th century, with wide avenues, tree-lined sidewalks, and Newbury Street running through its centre as the city's premier shopping and dining strip.
Beacon Hill
Boston, United States
Beacon Hill is Boston's most beautiful neighbourhood — a steep hillside of Federal-style brick rowhouses, gas-lit streetlamps, and cobblestone lanes that hasn't fundamentally changed since the early 19th century.
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.
Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market
4 Fanueil Hall Marketplace, Downtown, Boston, 02109, United States
Faneuil Hall has been called the 'Cradle of Liberty' since Samuel Adams stood inside it in the 1760s and argued that taxation without representation was tyranny — a line of reasoning that would eventually get a lot of people killed and a country founded.
Fenway Park
4 Jersey St, Boston, MA 02215
Fenway Park is the oldest ballpark in Major League Baseball — opened on April 20, 1912 (the same week the Titanic sank, which buried the sports page coverage), and still hosting Red Sox games in a venue that was designed for the dead-ball era and has been accumulating character ever since.
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.
Harvard Yard
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Harvard Yard is the oldest part of America's oldest university — a walled campus of red-brick buildings, ancient elm trees, and carefully maintained lawns that has been the symbolic heart of American higher education since 1636.
Massachusetts State House
24 Beacon St, Boston, MA 02133
The Massachusetts State House sits at the top of Beacon Hill with a gold dome that has been the most recognisable landmark in Boston since Charles Bulfinch designed it in 1798.
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.
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115
The Museum of Fine Arts holds over 500,000 works spanning 5,000 years, making it one of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the world.
New England Aquarium
1 Central Wharf, Boston, MA 02110
The New England Aquarium sits on Central Wharf overlooking Boston Harbor, and its centrepiece — the Giant Ocean Tank, a 200,000-gallon four-story cylinder of seawater containing sea turtles, sharks, rays, and hundreds of tropical fish — is one of the most mesmerising exhibits in any American aquarium.
Old North Church
193 Salem St, Boston, MA 02113
Old North Church is where the American Revolution went from talk to action.
Paul Revere House
19 North Square, Boston, MA 02113
The Paul Revere House is the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston — a wooden house built around 1680, bought by the silversmith and patriot in 1770, and preserved as a museum that gives you a direct, physical connection to the man who rode through the night shouting that the British were coming.
Trinity Church
206 Clarendon St, Back Bay, Boston, 02116, United States
Trinity Church is Henry Hobson Richardson's masterpiece — the building that launched an entire architectural movement (Richardsonian Romanesque) and has been ranked among the ten most significant buildings in American history by the American Institute of Architects.
Union Oyster House
41 Union St, Boston, MA 02108
The Union Oyster House has been serving oysters, clam chowder, and broiled lobster in the same building since 1826, making it the oldest continuously operating restaurant in America.
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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