2 Best Sights in Boston, Massachusetts

This stop on the Freedom Trail, in front of Old City Hall, commemorates the revolutionary, statesman, and inventor that every school child knows by name. Speaking of education, Franklin's likeness marks the original location of the Boston Latin School, the country's oldest public school (founded in 1635). Franklin attended Boston Latin with three other signers of the Declaration of Independence—Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Robert Treat Paine. However, he has the dubious distinction of being the only one of the four not to graduate. This is Freedom Trail stop 6.

This new memorial in the Boston Common was created as a permanent honor to the life and legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, their love, and powerful presence in Boston.