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.....

In the dense urban Fenway-Kenmore neighbourhood about two miles west of downtown Boston, Fenway Park is the oldest active baseball stadium in Major League Baseball, the home of the Boston Red Sox and one of the most beloved sporting venues in the United States. The 37,755-seat ballpark opened on 20 April 1912 (just five days after the sinking of the Titanic, an event that overshadowed all news coverage of the opening). Continuously occupied by the Red Sox since the opening day, the park has serv.....

On the central Cambridge campus of Harvard University just north of Harvard Yard, the Harvard Museum of Natural History (often referred to as the Harvard Natural History Museum) is the public-facing museum of Harvard University's three principal natural-history research collections. The museum occupies the third and fourth floors of the dramatic 1902 Romanesque Revival Museum Building at 26 Oxford Street, with the museum's permanent galleries drawing on the combined collections of the Museum of .....

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.....