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1. Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Jamaica Plain | Garden/ArboretumThis 281-acre living laboratory established in 1872 in accordance with the terms of a bequest from New Bedford merchant James Arnold contains...Read More
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2. Boston Common
Beacon Hill | Park/PlaygroundNothing is more central to Boston than the Common, the oldest public park in the United States and undoubtedly the largest and most famous of...Read More
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3. Boston Public Garden
Back Bay | Garden/ArboretumThe Public Garden is America's oldest botanical garden, and is replete with gorgeous formal plantings. Keep in mind that the Boston Public Garden...Read More
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4. Boston Public Library
Back Bay | Library/ArchiveThis venerable institution is a handsome temple to literature and a valuable research library. The Renaissance Revival building was opened in...Read More
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5. Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum
Downtown | Museum/GalleryThis lively museum offers an interactive look at the past in a place as close as possible to the actual spot where the Boston Tea Party took...Read More
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6. Bunker Hill Monument
Charlestown | Memorial/Monument/TombThree misunderstandings surround this famous monument. First, the Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed's Hill, which is where...Read More
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7. Children's Museum
Downtown | Museum/GalleryThe country's second-oldest children's museum has always been ahead of the curve with creative hands-on exhibits, cultural diversity, and problem...Read More
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8. Crane Beach on the Crane Estate
Beach–SightThe 1,200-acre Crane Beach on the Crane Estate, an hour's drive to the north of Boston in the 17th-century village of Ipswich, has 4 miles of...Read More
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9. Faneuil Hall
Government Center | Information CenterFaneuil Hall has always sat in the middle of Boston's main marketplace and, to be clear, the single building facing Congress Street is the real...Read More
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10. Fenway Park
The Fenway | Sports VenueFor 86 years, the Boston Red Sox suffered a World Series dry spell, a streak of bad luck that fans attributed to the "Curse of the Bambino,...Read More
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11. Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Square | Museum/GalleryIn late 2014, the combined collections of the Busch-Reisinger, Fogg, and Arthur M. Sackler museums were united under one glorious, mostly glass...Read More
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12. Harvard Museum of Natural History
Harvard Square | Museum/GalleryThe Harvard Museum of Natural History (which exhibits specimens from the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University Herbaria, and the...Read More
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13. Harvard Square
Harvard Square | Plaza/Square/PiazzaTides of students, tourists, political-cause proponents, and bizarre street creatures are all part of the nonstop pedestrian flow at this most...Read More
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14. Institute of Contemporary Art
Waterfront | Museum/GalleryHoused in a breathtaking cantilevered edifice that juts out over the Boston waterfront, the ICA moved to this site in 2006 as part of a massive...Read More
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15. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
The Fenway | Museum/GalleryA spirited society woman, Isabella Stewart came in 1860 from New York to marry John Lowell Gardner, one of Boston's leading citizens. "Mrs....Read More
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16. John F. Kennedy Library & Museum
Dorchester | Museum/GalleryThe library-museum is both a center for serious scholarship and a focus for Boston's nostalgia for her native son. The stark, white, prowlike...Read More
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17. Massachusetts State House
Beacon Hill | Government BuildingOn July 4, 1795, the surviving fathers of the Revolution were on hand to enshrine the ideals of their new Commonwealth in a graceful seat of...Read More
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18. Museum of Fine Arts
The Fenway | Museum/GalleryCount on staying awhile if you have any hope of seeing what's here. Eclecticism and thoroughness, often an incompatible pair, have coexisted...Read More
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19. Museum of Science
Old West End | Educational InstitutionWith 15-foot lightning bolts in the Theater of Electricity and a 20-foot-long Tyrannosaurus rex model, this is just the place to ignite any...Read More
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20. New England Aquarium
Downtown | Zoo/AquariumWith one of the world's largest ocean-reef tanks in the world and exhibits covering every sea creature imaginable, this aquarium is a must for...Read More
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