Walk the Freedom Trail, cruise the harbor, tour Harvard and Fenway Park, and pair world-class museums with swan boats and skyline views.
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City overview
Downtown to Charlestown
A red-brick line linking sixteen revolutionary sites across 2.5 miles - the spine of every Boston visit.
Fenway - Huntington Ave
One of the world's great encyclopedic museums - 500,000 works spanning Egyptian tombs to Monet to samurai armor, with a distinguished Islamic art collection.
Downtown
America's oldest public park (1634) - the Freedom Trail's starting lawn, with skating, splash pools, and city life.
Back Bay edge
Victorian botanical garden with pedal-powered swan boats since 1877 and the beloved Make Way for Ducklings statues.
Downtown - Freedom Trail
The 1742 'Cradle of Liberty' beside a granite market hall of food stalls, shops, and street performers.
Charlestown
'Old Ironsides' (1797) - the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, boarded free, with a hands-on museum beside it.
Waterfront - Central Wharf
A four-story ocean tank, penguin colony, and touchable rays on the downtown waterfront - toddler paradise.
Fenway - museum corridor
A Venetian palazzo built around a flowering courtyard - and the empty frames of the world's greatest unsolved art heist.
Charles River dam - West End
Indoor lightning storms, a planetarium, dinosaurs, and hundreds of hands-on stations spanning the Charles River dam.
Back Bay - Copley Square
A 'palace for the people' (1895) - Bates Hall's green lamps, Sargent murals, and a Venetian courtyard, all free.
Fenway-Kenmore
Baseball's oldest cathedral (1912) - the Green Monster, hand-turned scoreboard, and a century of Red Sox devotion.
Cambridge - Harvard Square
The 1636 heart of America's oldest university - free student-led tours, the 'statue of three lies,' and collegiate dreams.
North End
Downtown Boston's oldest house (c. 1680) - the small timber home the midnight rider left on April 18, 1775.
North End
Boston's oldest church (1723), where two lanterns in the steeple - 'one if by land, two if by sea' - signaled the Revolution.
Charlestown
A 221-foot granite obelisk over the Revolution's first great battle - climb 294 steps for wraparound city views.
Beacon Hill
The gold-domed 1798 capitol crowning Beacon Hill - free weekday tours through working state government.
Downtown - Financial District
Boston's oldest public building (1713), where the Declaration was first read to the city - the Massacre cobblestones below.
Downtown
The 1729 hall where 5,000 colonists launched the Boston Tea Party - 'no tax on tea!' began here.
Downtown - Tremont St
The 1660 graveyard of revolutionaries - Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and the Massacre victims rest here.
Seaport - Fort Point
Costumed theatre on replica ships - throw the tea overboard yourself where history's protest happened.
Seaport - Harborwalk
A cantilevered glass gallery hanging over the harbor - contemporary art with Boston's best waterside architecture.
Back Bay - Copley Square
Richardson's 1877 Romanesque masterpiece on Copley Square - repeatedly ranked among America's finest buildings.
Back Bay - Prudential
Three floors of 360-degree views atop the Prudential Tower - the city, harbor, and mountains from 52 stories.
Cambridge - Harvard
The impossible Glass Flowers, whale skeletons, and gem galleries - Harvard's cabinet of wonders.