🇺🇸Boston

Fenway Park

Fenway Park is the Boston ballpark that is home to the Boston Red Sox.

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• Entertainment venue

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is a major encyclopaedic museum whose collections range from ancient objects and paintings to decorative arts, textiles, photography, and contemporary work.

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• Museum

Boston Common

Boston Common is a nearly 50-acre public park in the centre of Boston, established in 1634 and managed by the Boston Parks and Recreation Department.

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Faneuil Hall

Faneuil Hall is a specific historic building at 1 Faneuil Hall Square, not the surrounding Faneuil Hall Marketplace.

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• Historic monument

Boston Public Garden

Boston Public Garden is a living civic landscape in the heart of Boston and the nation’s first public botanical garden, established in 1837.

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• Nature site

New England Aquarium

New England Aquarium is a major marine-life institution on Boston’s Central Wharf, where the waterfront setting is part of the experience.

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• Family attraction

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is a Venetian-style palace museum created from one founder’s intensely personal vision.

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• Museum

USS Constitution

USS Constitution is the United States Navy’s wooden-hulled frigate known as “Old Ironsides,” preserved afloat in Boston’s Charlestown Navy Yard.

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• Museum

Old North Church

Old North Church is an active Episcopal church at 193 Salem Street in Boston’s North End, and the city’s oldest surviving church building.

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• Historic monument

Bunker Hill Monument

Bunker Hill Monument is a granite battle monument and Boston’s principal memorial to the Battle of Bunker Hill, standing above Charlestown as the final major stop of the Freedom Trail.

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• Viewpoint

Boston Tea Party - Ships and Museum

The Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum is an interactive heritage attraction located on the Fort Point Channel in Boston, Massachusetts.

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• Museum

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is a National presidential library and museum located on Columbia Point in Boston. It serves as the official repository for documents and artifacts from the presidency of John F.

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• Museum

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. Established in 1636, it is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

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Massachusetts State House

The Massachusetts State House serves as the seat of government for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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• Historic monument

Old South Meeting House

Old South Meeting House is a historic church building in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1729, it served as a Puritan meeting house and later became famous as a gathering place for political debate before the American Revolution.

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• Museum

Paul Revere House

The Paul Revere House is Boston's best-preserved Revolutionary-era house museum. Built around 1680, this wooden structure in the North End is the oldest surviving building in downtown Boston.

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• Museum

Museum of Science

The Museum of Science is a major science museum located in Boston, Massachusetts. It spans the Charles River, situated on a dam between Boston and Cambridge.

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• Museum

Prudential Tower

The Prudential Tower is a 52-story skyscraper in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, completed in 1964 as part of the larger Prudential Center complex.

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• Viewpoint

Trinity Church

Trinity Church is a Richardsonian Romanesque landmark located on Copley Square in Boston. The building represents a significant example of 19th-century American church architecture, designed by Henry Hobson Richardson.

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• Place of worship

Boston Public Library

The Boston Public Library is a public library system serving Boston, Massachusetts. Its central facility includes the historic McKim Building, a Beaux-Arts structure opened in 1895 and designed by architect Charles Follen McKim.

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• Art and culture venue

Harvard Square

Harvard Square is a triangular plaza at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue, Brattle Street, and John F. Kennedy Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It functions as the principal pedestrian and cultural hub surrounding Harvard University.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. Founded in 1861, it is globally recognized for leadership in science, engineering, and technology.

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Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums is Harvard University's major public art collection and gallery complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Boston. The institution brings together three formerly separate museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M.

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• Museum

Boston Children's Museum

Boston Children's Museum is a major hands-on children's museum located on the Fort Point waterfront in Boston, Massachusetts.

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• Museum

Mapparium

The Mapparium

Mapparium is a three-storey stained-glass globe inside the Christian Science complex in Boston’s Back Bay. Visitors enter the globe and stand within a world map, viewing countries, borders, and oceans from the inside of a hollow sphere.

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Symphony Hall

Symphony Hall is a concert hall in Boston, Massachusetts, serving as the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The venue opened in 1900 and was designed by McKim, Mead & White.

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• Art and culture venue

Franklin Park Zoo

Franklin Park Zoo is Boston's principal zoological institution and a major family destination. Located within Franklin Park in the Dorchester and Roxbury neighborhoods, it occupies part of the historic Emerald Necklace park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

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• Family attraction

Arnold Arboretum

Arnold Arboretum is a botanical research institution and public park in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1872, it serves as Harvard University's living collection of woody plants.

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Castle Island

Castle Island is a 22-acre landmass connected to South Boston by a narrow causeway, forming a peninsula in Boston Harbor.

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Institute of Contemporary Art

The Institute of Contemporary Art

The Institute of Contemporary Art is a prominent contemporary-art museum located on the Seaport waterfront in Boston. It serves as a major cultural institution dedicated to the exhibition and interpretation of contemporary art in various media.

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• Museum

Spectacle Island

Spectacle Island is one of the Boston Harbor Islands, located in Massachusetts Bay. It is a publicly accessible island managed as part of the Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park.

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Georges Island

Georges Island is a harbor island in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts. The island is dominated by Fort Warren, a historic military fortification that played significant roles in American coastal defense.

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Charles River Esplanade

The Charles River Esplanade is a central riverside park and outdoor-events landscape along the Boston shore of the Charles River. It functions as a linear public park system extending from the Boston Museum of Science to the Boston University Bridge.

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Acorn Street

Acorn Street is a historic cobblestone lane in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood. It is widely regarded as one of the most photographed streets in the United States due to its distinctive Federal-style row houses, gas lamps, and narrow brick-paved thoroughfare.

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Beacon Hill

Beacon Hill is a historic residential neighbourhood in central Boston, Massachusetts. It sits directly north of Boston Common and the Boston Public Garden. The district is renowned for its well-preserved Federal-style rowhouses, narrow gaslit streets, and brick sidewalks.

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African Meeting House

The African Meeting House is a historic church building on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. Constructed in 1806, it is recognized as the oldest extant Black church building in the United States.

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King's Chapel

Kings Chapel

King's Chapel is a historic Anglican congregation in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1686, it was the first Anglican church in New England during a period of Puritan dominance.

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Granary Burying Ground

The Granary Burying Ground is a historic cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1660, it is the third-oldest cemetery in the city and holds significant importance in American history.

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Copp's Hill Burying Ground

Copp's Hill Burying Ground is a historic colonial cemetery in Boston's North End. Established in 1659, it is the city's second-oldest burying ground.

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King's Chapel Burying Ground

Kings Chapel Burying Ground

King's Chapel Burying Ground is Boston's oldest cemetery, established in 1630. It sits beside King's Chapel on Tremont Street along the Freedom Trail. The burying ground served as Boston's sole cemetery for three decades before additional burial grounds opened.

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Old State House

The Old State House is a historic colonial government building in Boston, Massachusetts. Constructed in 1713, it served as the seat of the Massachusetts colonial government and later the state government until 1798.

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• Museum

Boston Massacre Site

The Boston Massacre Site marks the location of the March 5, 1770 confrontation between British soldiers and colonists that resulted in five civilian deaths.

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Quincy Market

Quincy Market is a historic marketplace in downtown Boston, part of the larger Faneuil Hall Marketplace complex. Built in 1824-1826 and named after Mayor Josiah Quincy, it was designed by architect Alexander Parris.

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New England Holocaust Memorial

The New England Holocaust Memorial is a public memorial in Boston dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. Located near Faneuil Hall and Union Street in the downtown area, it stands as a prominent civic memorial.

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• Historic monument

USS Cassin Young

USS Cassin Young is a preserved Fletcher-class destroyer of the United States Navy, now a museum ship at Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. The vessel saw service in World War II and the Korean War.

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• Museum

Charlestown Navy Yard

Charlestown Navy Yard is a historic naval shipyard in Boston, Massachusetts, operated as part of Boston National Historical Park by the National Park Service.

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Copley Square

Copley Square is a public civic square in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood.

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Back Bay Fens

Back Bay Fens is a linear park in Boston's Emerald Necklace, the connected park system associated with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Jamaica Pond

Jamaica Pond is a large freshwater pond in Boston, Massachusetts. It forms a significant part of Frederick Law Olmsted's Emerald Necklace, a chain of parks designed in the late nineteenth century.

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Boston Opera House

The Boston Opera House is a historic downtown theatre and major performance venue in Boston, Massachusetts. It stands as a significant cultural landmark in the city, hosting a variety of performing arts events.

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Orpheum Theatre

The Orpheum Theatre is a historic concert venue located in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It ranks among the city's longest-running performance spaces, having served as a major entertainment destination for well over a century.

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• Historic monument

Gibson House Museum

Gibson House

The Gibson House Museum is a preserved Back Bay townhouse in Boston. It stands as a historic house museum maintaining its original Victorian-era interior and exterior character.

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• Museum

Nichols House Museum

Nichols House Museum is a historic house museum in Boston’s Beacon Hill neighborhood. The former Nichols family residence preserves the domestic setting of a wealthy Boston household whose members lived in the house for nearly a century.

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• Museum

First Harrison Gray Otis House

Otis House Museum

First Harrison Gray Otis House is a Federal-era house museum in Boston, associated with lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis.

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• Museum

Old South Church

Old South Church is a prominent historic church located in Copley Square, Boston. It stands as a significant cultural landmark in the city, recognized for its distinctive architecture and its role in Boston's religious and civic history.

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Cathedral of the Holy Cross

The Cathedral of the Holy Cross is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.

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Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Hope

The Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a Roman Catholic basilica, parish church, and pilgrimage site in Boston.

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The First Church of Christ, Scientist

First Church of Christ Scientist

The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the mother church and administrative headquarters of the Christian Science denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879.

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MIT Museum

The MIT Museum is the public museum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It serves as MIT's primary venue for sharing its collections and research with the general public.

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Harvard Museum of Natural History

The Harvard Museum of Natural History is Harvard University's public natural-history museum, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston.

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Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is a museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Boston. Founded in 1866, it is one of the oldest museums devoted to anthropology in the world.

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Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site

Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site is a Georgian-style historic house in Cambridge, Massachusetts, across the Charles River from Boston. George Washington used the mansion as his headquarters during the Siege of Boston from 1775 to 1776.

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Cambridge Common

Cambridge Common is a historic public park in Cambridge, Massachusetts, adjacent to Harvard Square. The common has served as a communal gathering space since the colonial era and holds significance in American Revolutionary history.

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Mount Auburn Cemetery

Mount Auburn Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in Cambridge and Watertown, Massachusetts, near Boston. Established in 1831, it was the first garden cemetery in the United States and served as a model for the American rural cemetery movement.

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Christopher Columbus Park

Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park

Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park is a public waterfront park in Boston's North End. It sits beside Boston Harbor and offers views toward the downtown skyline, making it a natural pause during a walk through the historic neighborhood.

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Boston Fire Museum

Boston Fire Museum occupies the historic Congress Street Fire Station near Boston's waterfront in South Boston. The museum preserves the history of one of America's oldest fire departments through antique apparatus, equipment, documents, and memorabilia.

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USS Salem

USS Salem is a preserved heavy cruiser museum ship located in Quincy, Massachusetts, near Boston. She is a Des Moines-class cruiser, the third of her class, and served in the United States Navy from 1949 to 1959.

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Adams National Historical Park

Adams National Historical Park is a National Park Service unit preserving the homes and grounds associated with the Adams family in Quincy, Massachusetts, within the Boston visitor-metro area.

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West End Museum

The West End Museum

The West End Museum is a neighborhood museum in Boston devoted to the history of the city's West End. Its central story is the transformation of a working-class immigrant neighborhood during urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s.

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USS Constitution Museum

The USS Constitution Museum is a private, non-profit museum located in the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, Massachusetts. It interprets the history of USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat, and the broader story of the Charlestown Navy Yard.

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Old Corner Bookstore

Old Corner Bookstore Building

The Old Corner Bookstore is a historic commercial building in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. It stands at the intersection of Washington and School Streets in the colonial core of the city.

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Old City Hall

Old City Hall is a Second Empire architectural landmark on School Street in Boston. It served as the seat of municipal government from 1865 to 1969.

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Armenian Heritage Park

Armenian Heritage Park is a public memorial park in Boston dedicated to commemorating the Armenian genocide and celebrating the contributions of Armenian immigrants to Massachusetts.

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The Lawn on D

The Lawn on D is an outdoor event space and lawn area in South Boston, Massachusetts. It is operated by Signature Boston, the convention center authority for the city.

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Boston Public Market

Boston Public Market is a year-round indoor marketplace in downtown Boston, Massachusetts. Opened in 2015, it was created as a permanent producer-focused market for New England food and drink.

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Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate is a civic-education institute located in Boston, Massachusetts. It stands beside the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, forming a significant political heritage cluster on Columbia Point.

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James P. Kelleher Rose Garden

James P. Kelleher Rose Garden is a formal rose garden located within the Back Bay Fens in Boston, Massachusetts. It is part of the Emerald Necklace park system designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

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