Attractions & Tours
Things to Do in Boston
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14 attractions
Tours
Boston Tours
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Freedom Trail Walking Tour
The 2.5-mile red-brick path linking 16 of the most important sites of the American Revolution — from Boston Common to the Old North Church and beyond. A guided tour brings the history to life.
Boston Hop-On Hop-Off Trolley Tour
A narrated hop-on hop-off trolley looping the city's major sites — the easiest way to cover Boston's spread-out highlights, from the Freedom Trail to Back Bay to the waterfront, on day one.
Fenway Park Tour
A guided tour of the oldest ballpark in the major leagues — home of the Boston Red Sox since 1912, with the legendary Green Monster, and a century-plus of baseball history in every corner.
Harvard & Cambridge Walking Tour
A guided walk through Harvard Yard and Cambridge — the nation's oldest university, founded in 1636, with its storied campus, Harvard Square, and the student-led stories you won't get from a plaque.
Museums
Boston Museums
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Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
A floating, interactive museum on Fort Point Channel where you board restored 18th-century ships and throw "tea" into the harbor — reliving the 1773 protest that helped spark the Revolution.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
One of the largest and most comprehensive art museums in the country — outstanding collections of Egyptian, Asian, and American art, plus French Impressionists including a celebrated group of Monets.
New England Aquarium
On Central Wharf at the downtown waterfront — built around a four-story Giant Ocean Tank you spiral up and around, with sea turtles, sharks, rays, a beloved penguin colony, and harbor seals out front.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A Venetian-palazzo museum built around a glorious glass-roofed courtyard garden, displaying one collector's personal trove exactly as she arranged it — and famous for the empty frames left by the unsolved 1990 art heist.
Cruises
Boston Cruises
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Boston Harbor Sightseeing Cruise
See Boston from the water — a narrated sightseeing cruise around the historic harbor, with skyline views, the waterfront, the Harbor Islands, and the maritime history that built the city.
Boston Whale Watching Cruise
A high-speed catamaran cruise to Stellwagen Bank, a federally protected feeding ground where humpback, finback, and minke whales gather in the warmer months — one of the best whale-watching trips on the East Coast.
Landmarks
Boston Landmarks
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Boston Common & Public Garden
The oldest public park in America (1634) and the first public botanical garden in the country, side by side downtown — with the Swan Boats, the "Make Way for Ducklings" statues, and the start of the Freedom Trail.
Faneuil Hall & Quincy Market
The "Cradle of Liberty," a public meeting hall and marketplace since 1742, beside the bustling Quincy Market food hall — a Freedom Trail landmark that's also the city's liveliest spot to eat and browse.
Observation Decks
Boston Observation Decks
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Historic Sites
Boston Historic Sites
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