An opulent jewel of Boston's Theater District, the Wang Theatre on Tremont Street is one of the grandest performance spaces in New England. Opened in 1925 as the Metropolitan Theatre, a lavish movie palace inspired by European opera houses and Versailles, it dazzled audiences with its marble, gilding and chandeliers, and after various names and uses it endures today as a flagship venue operated by the non-profit Boch Center. The auditorium is enormous and richly decorated, seating around three .....

In the heart of downtown Boston bounded by Beacon, Park, Tremont, Boylston and Charles Streets, the Boston Common is the oldest public park in the United States and one of the most historically significant public spaces in the nation. The 50-acre rectangular park was established in 1634, just four years after the founding of Boston itself, when the Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony purchased the land from the original settler William Blaxton and dedicated it to common use as a ca.....

On the western edge of downtown Boston immediately west of Boston Common at the corner of Beacon, Charles, Boylston and Arlington Streets, the Boston Public Garden is the first public botanical garden in the United States and one of the most beloved small urban parks in New England. The 24-acre formal garden was established in 1837 by an Act of the Massachusetts General Court on a piece of made land created through the gradual filling-in of the marshy bay just west of the Common. The garden was.....

On the Fort Point Channel in the historic Seaport district of Boston just south of the Financial District, the Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum is one of the most thoughtfully designed historical museums in New England and a deeply engaging immersive recreation of one of the most famous events of the American Revolution. The museum reopened in June 2012 following a complete reconstruction (the original 1973 museum on the same site having been destroyed by a 2001 fire), with the new 50,000-square-.....

The oldest continuously operating theatre in Boston, the Emerson Colonial Theatre on Boylston Street has been a centrepiece of the city's Theater District since it opened in 1900. Renowned for its sumptuous Gilded Age interior of gold leaf, marble and ornate plasterwork, the theatre has hosted countless landmark productions over more than a century and holds a storied place in American theatrical history as a celebrated pre-Broadway tryout house. The auditorium seats around seventeen hundred pe.....

In the heart of historic downtown Boston between the Government Center and the central waterfront, Faneuil Hall is one of the most historically significant buildings in the United States and one of the principal sites of the Boston National Historical Park along the celebrated Freedom Trail. The brick three-storey Georgian-style hall has stood at the corner of Congress and North Streets since 1742, when the wealthy Boston merchant Peter Faneuil commissioned the original two-storey building at hi.....

Pitched on the South Boston waterfront, the Leader Bank Pavilion is the city's premier open-air concert venue, a distinctive tented amphitheatre overlooking the harbour. Operating each summer since the 1990s and known through its history under a series of names, the pavilion has become a much-loved fixture of the warm-weather calendar, drawing audiences to the Seaport district for a season of concerts beneath its billowing white canopy. The venue seats around five thousand people under a large .....

On the crest of Beacon Hill overlooking the historic Boston Common from the north, the Massachusetts State House is the seat of government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and one of the most architecturally distinguished state capitol buildings in the United States. The original red-brick three-storey building was designed by the celebrated American architect Charles Bulfinch (often considered the first professionally trained architect born in America) and substantially completed in 1798, w.....

In the Fenway-Kenmore neighbourhood of Boston about three miles west of downtown, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston is one of the largest encyclopaedic art museums in the United States and one of the oldest. The museum opened its permanent home on the Fourth of July 1876, on the occasion of the celebrated United States Centennial Exhibition, in a small Gothic Revival building at Copley Square in central Boston. The museum relocated to its current dramatic Beaux-Arts building on Huntington Avenue in.....

In the bustling Seaport District of Boston about half a mile south of the Financial District, the Museum of Ice Cream Boston is one of the most heavily Instagrammed immersive entertainment venues in the city. The 25,000-square-foot complex opened in December 2023 as the seventh permanent Museum of Ice Cream location worldwide (following the original 2016 pop-up in New York and subsequent permanent locations in Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, Singapore, Chicago and now Boston), occupying a sub.....