The following is a list of tourist attractions in Boston, Massachusetts. Some sites appear in multiple lists.

Historic sites and national parks

Black Heritage Trail The Boston African American National Historic Site, in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts's Beacon Hill neighborhood, interprets 15 pre-Civil War structures relating to the history of Boston's 19th-century African-American community, connected ...

Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area The Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area is a national recreation area situated among the islands of Boston Harbor of Boston, Massachusetts. The area is made up of a collection of islands, together with a former island and a peninsula, ...

Boston National Historical Park The Boston National Historical Park is an association of sites that showcase Boston's role in the American Revolution and other parts of history. It was designated a national park on October 1, 1974. Seven of the eight sites are connected by the ...

* Castle Island * Custom House Tower * Dorchester Heights Monument * Freedom Trail – marked by a red line of bricks embedded in the ground ** Boston Common (including Boston Public Garden) ** Bunker Hill Monument ** Faneuil Hall ( Quincy Market is adjacent) ** Granary Burying Ground **

Massachusetts State House The Massachusetts State House, also known as the Massachusetts Statehouse or the New State House, is the List of state capitols in the United States, state capitol and seat of government for the Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, lo ...

** Old North Church ** Old State House **

Paul Revere House The Paul Revere House, built c.1680, was the colonial home of American patriot and Founding Father Paul Revere during the time of the American Revolution. A National Historic Landmark since 1961, it is located at 19 North Square, Boston, Massa ...

** USS ''Constitution'' *

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Museums, aquariums, and zoos

Boston Athenæum The Boston Athenaeum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a number of subscription library, membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenaeum services. The instit ...

– one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States *

Boston Children's Museum Boston Children's Museum is a children's museum in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the education of children. Located on Children's Wharf along the Fort Point Channel, Boston Children's Museum is the second oldest children's museum in the Unit ...

Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest by the Sons of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, on December 16, 1773. The target was the Tea Act of May 10, 1773, which allowed the British East India Company to sell te ...

– on the Fort Point Channel, includes a full-scale replica of the ''Eleanor'' and ''Beaver'', two of the ships involved in the event *

Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate (also known as the Kennedy Institute) is a non-profit civic engagement and educational institution on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, next to the ...

– specialty museum with a full-scale reproduction of the U.S. Senate Chamber *

Franklin Park Zoo The Franklin Park Zoo is a zoo located in Boston, Massachusetts. It is currently operated by Zoo New England, which also operates the Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Massachusetts. The zoo is located in the northeast portion of Franklin Park, Boston's ...

Gibson House Museum The Gibson House Museum is an historic house museum located at 137 Beacon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It preserves the 1860 Victorian rowhouse occupied by three generations of the Gibson family. The house was ...

Harrison Gray Otis House There are three houses named the Harrison Gray Otis House in Boston, Massachusetts. All were built by noted American architect Charles Bulfinch for the same man, Federalist lawyer and politician Harrison Gray Otis. First Harrison Gray Otis House ...

* Institute of Contemporary Art * Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum – art museum focusing on European art *

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is the presidential library and museum of John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–1963), the 35th president of the United States (1961–1963). It is located on Columbia Point in the Dorchester neighbo ...

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presidential library A presidential library, presidential center, or presidential museum is a facility either created in honor of a former president and containing their papers, or affiliated with a country's presidency. In the United States * The presidential libr ...

*The Mary Baker Eddy Library and

Mapparium The Mapparium is a three-story-tall globe made of stained glass that is viewed from a bridge through its interior. As of August 2021, it is part of the "How Do You See the World?" exhibit of the Christian Science Publishing Society in Boston, Mas ...

– cultural and historical museum/library * Museum of Fine Arts – art museum *

Museum of Science The Museum of Science (MoS) is a science museum and indoor zoo in Boston, Massachusetts, located in Science Park, a plot of land spanning the Charles River. Along with over 700 interactive exhibits, the museum features a number of live presentat ...

– science museum, including an

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theater and

planetarium A planetarium ( planetariums or ''planetaria'') is a theatre built primarily for presenting educational and entertaining shows about astronomy and the night sky, or for training in celestial navigation. A dominant feature of most planetarium ...

New England Aquarium The New England Aquarium is a public aquarium located in Boston, Massachusetts. The species exhibited include harbor and northern fur seals, California sea lions, African and southern rockhopper penguins, giant Pacific octopuses, weedy seadra ...

Nichols House Museum The Nichols House Museum is a museum at 55 Mount Vernon Street on Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts. The house in which it is located was designed by the architect Charles Bulfinch, and built by Jonathan Mason, the politician, in 1804. The ...

* Old South Meeting House * Old State House * Prescott House * USS Cassin Young – decorated Fletcher-class destroyer from World War II *

USS Constitution Museum The USS Constitution Museum is located in the Charlestown Navy Yard, which is part of the Boston National Historical Park in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The museum is situated near the ship at the end of Boston's Freedom Trail. The ...

– a hands-on museum that collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Old Ironsides *

Warren Anatomical Museum The Warren Anatomical Museum, housed within Harvard Medical School's Countway Library of Medicine, was founded in 1847 by Harvard professor John Collins Warren, whose personal collection of 160 unusual and instructive anatomical and pathological ...

Neighborhoods and districts

Parks and squares

Charles River Esplanade, Boston, Massachusetts

Arnold Arboretum The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a botanical research institution and free public park, located in the Jamaica Plain and Roslindale neighborhoods of Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1872, it is the oldest public arboretum in N ...

* Boston Common * Boston Public Garden * Charles River and Esplanade * Copley Square * Kenmore Square *

Garden of Peace The Garden of Peace in Boston, Massachusetts, is a memorial commemorating victims of homicide: The garden design consists of a dry streambed containing smooth river stones engraved with the names of homicide victims, and includes two sculptures ...

* Rose Kennedy Greenway

Performing arts centers

* Boston Opera House * Citi Performing Arts Center * Cutler Majestic Theatre * Jordan Hall at the

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the oldest independent music conservatory in the United States and among the most prestigious in the world. The conservatory is located on Hu ...

of Music * Symphony Hall – home of the

Boston Symphony Orchestra The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the " Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, ...

and Boston Pops Orchestra

Religious buildings

* Cathedral Church of St. Paul - Episcopal church * Cathedral of the Holy Cross - Roman Catholic church * Old North Church - Episcopal church *

Old South Church Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts, (also known as New Old South Church or Third Church) is a historic United Church of Christ congregation first organized in 1669. Its present building was designed in the Gothic Revival style by Charles ...

- United Church of Christ church *

The First Church of Christ, Scientist The First Church of Christ, Scientist is the administrative headquarters and mother church of the Church of Christ, Scientist, also known as the Christian Science church. Christian Science was founded in the 19th century in Lynn, Massachuset ...

- Christian Science * Trinity Church, Back Bay, an Episcopal church * First Church in Boston, Back Bay, Unitarian Universalist church designed by Paul Rudolph

Restaurants and pubs

* Bull & Finch Pub – whose building is known from the television show ''

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'' * Legal Sea Foods – well known seafood restaurant with 11 locations in Boston *

Union Oyster House Union Oyster House, open to diners since 1826, is amongst the oldest operating restaurants in the United States, and the oldest known that has been continuously operating since being opened. The building was listed as a National Historic Landmark ...

– oldest restaurant in the United States

Shopping areas

Copley Place Copley Place is an enclosed shopping mall within the mixed-use Copley Square in the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It features direct indoor connections to several nearby destinations including four office towers, and the Bosto ...

* Downtown Crossing * Newbury Street * Prudential Center * Quincy Market – part of the larger Faneuil Hall Marketplace

Sports arenas and stadiums

* Agganis Arena at Boston University * Fenway Park – home of the Boston Red Sox * Harvard Stadium *

Suffolk Downs Suffolk Downs is a former Thoroughbred race track in East Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The track opened in 1935 after being built by Joseph A. Tomasello for a cost of $2 million. It was sold in May 2017 to a developer who plans to crea ...

* Nickerson Field * TD Garden – home of the Boston Bruins and the

Boston Celtics The Boston Celtics ( ) are an American professional basketball team based in Boston. The Celtics compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 as one of t ...

, formerly named the FleetCenter, this arena replaced the Boston Garden in 1995

Tours

* Boston By Foot – offers guided architectural and historical walking tours of various Boston neighborhoods, including

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, Back Bay, the North End, and the Freedom Trail *

Boston Duck Tours Boston Duck Tours is a privately owned company that operates historical tours of the city of Boston using replica World War II amphibious DUKW vehicles. Boston Duck Tours first started running tours in Boston, Massachusetts on October 5, 1994. Th ...

– guided-tour that uses World War II-era duck boats *

Boston HarborWalk Boston Harborwalk is a public walkway that follows the edge of piers, wharves, beaches, and shoreline around Boston Harbor. When fully completed it will extend a distance of from East Boston to the Neponset River. History The Harborwalk is a coo ...

– tour designed to allow people to walk the entire shore of Boston Harbor *

Harpoon Brewery 257px, Harpoon Brewery is an employee owned American brewery, with locations in Boston, Massachusetts, and Windsor, Vermont. History Harpoon Brewery, also known as the Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company, was originally founded in 1986. The ...

– free beer samples * Samuel Adams Brewery – free guided tour of the brewery demonstrating each step of the beer making process and ending with samplings of different varieties

Other

* Autumn foliage – in the outer suburbs of Boston, whose vibrant color attracts many tourists

Notes

References

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External links

Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
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