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.....

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.....

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 .....

At the bustling Assembly Row shopping and entertainment district in the Boston suburb of Somerville just north of Cambridge, LEGOLAND Discovery Center Boston is one of more than two dozen LEGOLAND Discovery Centers operating worldwide as the indoor family-entertainment counterpart to the larger outdoor LEGOLAND theme parks. The 44,000-square-foot facility opened in May 2014, occupying the upper two levels of a substantial mixed-use commercial building at the heart of the Assembly Row complex. T.....

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 a converted ground-floor commercial space in the celebrated Financial District of Boston immediately north of Faneuil Hall, the Museum of Illusions Boston is one of more than 50 individual Museum of Illusions venues now operating worldwide as one of the most rapidly expanding small-museum chains of the modern era. The 5,000-square-foot Boston venue opened in May 2022, joining the international Museum of Illusions chain that originated with the celebrated 2015 Zagreb (Croatia) original and has.....

On the Charles River Dam immediately north of the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Boston, the Museum of Science Boston is one of the largest and most heavily visited science museums in the United States and one of the most architecturally distinguished. The museum spans the Charles River Dam itself, with the main museum building straddling the river between the Cambridge and Boston shores on a unique cantilever foundation built atop the early-twentieth-century dam structure. The museum opened in Fe.....

On the central downtown waterfront of Boston at the foot of State Street and immediately north of Long Wharf, the New England Aquarium is the most heavily visited tourist attraction in Boston and one of the largest public aquariums in the United States. The aquarium opened in June 1969 in a dramatic four-storey concrete-and-glass building designed by the celebrated architectural firm of Cambridge Seven Associates, occupying the Central Wharf site that had served as a major Boston commercial ship.....

In the heart of the historic North End neighbourhood of Boston about half a mile north of Faneuil Hall, the Old North Church (formally the Episcopal Church of Christ in the City of Boston) is the oldest standing church building in Boston and one of the most historically significant religious buildings in the United States. The dramatic Georgian-style brick church was designed by the celebrated colonial-era Boston printer and architectural draughtsman William Price (modelled in part on the celebr.....