Drive to Gloucester and find a seafood restaurant that serves Cod Fish cheeks.
Revolutionary War stuff.. Bunker (Breeds Hill), U.S.S. Constitution, Lexington and Concord.
PeterWick said:
- Museum of Fine Arts on Huntington Ave
- Fenway Park for a ballgame
- wandering The Fens
- Isabella Stewart Art Museum by Ave. Louis Pasteur
https://www.gardnermuseum.org/- Boston Public Gardens at Arlington Street & Boylston S
- Boston Common right across Charles St.
- Beacon Hill area
- Wandering down Newbury Street on Sundays - it becomes pedestrian only
- Wandering down the middle of Commonwealth Ave
- Faneuil Hall area
- Boston Aquarium
- USS Constitution and the wharf in Charleston
- Bunker Hill Monument and history tour
- North End restaurants
- Wandering the South End
- Christian Science Museum and the big reflecting pool in the plaza
- St. Germain Street is ridiculously cute (but it's just one little street near the Christian Science plaza)
- The Pru(dential) building has a huge plaza underneath it now. Saks 5th Ave and lots of different shops
- Copley Place has all sorts of stuff, too
- The plaza by the Hancock Tower and Copley Church sometimes has fun stuff
- Boylston Street can be fun
- Various historic churches & the Freedom Trail
- The Esplanade and walking along the Charles on both sides.
- Harvard Square
- Symphony Hall
I love that city. A place in the Back Bay would put you right in the area where most of that stuff is within reach.
This is a great list. If you're staying in the Back Bay, part of the Christian Science complex is the Mapparium inside the Mary Baker Eddy Library. It's a short, low-key, low-cost diversion where you spend about 20 minutes inside a three-story glass globe of the world from the 1930s and as a perfect sphere, the sound effects are pretty cool.
chalmers said:
This is a great list. If you're staying in the Back Bay, part of the Christian Science complex is the Mapparium inside the Mary Baker Eddy Library. It's a short, low-key, low-cost diversion where you spend about 20 minutes inside a three-story glass globe of the world from the 1930s and as a perfect sphere, the sound effects are pretty cool.
This was a highlight of my last visit to Boston, along with the Museum of Science which had a Lord of the Rings costume and model exhibit when I was there (there's a cool-looking Mars exhibit there right now).
Embarrassingly I have yet to visit this city. Planning on a long weekend. Sun- Wed. Thinking airbb in Back Bay. Tell me if this gets me in the vicinity of most sites. Give me your top 5 things to do in 48hoursTIA