Boston · Massachusetts

Brick streets, harbor sails, the old American walk.

Freedom Trail walks, harbor cruises, the North End at dinner, and weekend trips out to Salem, Plymouth and the Cape. The city the Revolution started in, still walking.

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The Boston Original

Start with the one that started it.

Half land, half river. Boston is where the Duck Tour was invented, and it’s still how more first-timers see the city than any other single experience.

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Boston Duck Boat Sightseeing City Tour with Cruise Along Charles River

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The Classics

Boston’s Most Popular Experiences

Duck Tours, Freedom Trail walks, the hop-on-hop-off trolley, Harvard Yard, Fenway, and the harbor cruise out past the islands. The trips most first-timers come for.

5.0 Boston Boston: Freedom Trail History Small Group Walking Tour 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) $35.10 4.5 Boston Boston Hop-On Hop-Off Trolley Tour with 13 Stops 2 hours (approx.) $52.45 4.6 Boston Boston Duck Tour: The Original and World-Famous $60 4.5 Boston Harvard University Campus Guided Walking Tour 1 hour 10 minutes (approx.) $23.00 4.5 Boston Boston to Martha’s Vineyard Day Trip with Optional Island Tour 12 hours (approx.) $129.00 4.5 Boston City Cruises Boston Whale Watching Cruise by High-Speed Boat 3 hours 30 minutes (approx.) $85.56

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2.5 miles, 16 stops

Walk the Freedom Trail.

A red line painted on the pavement runs from Boston Common to the Bunker Hill Monument, linking sixteen sites where Revolutionary Boston still stands: the Old State House, Faneuil Hall, Paul Revere’s house, the Old North Church, the Granary Burying Ground. If you only do one walk in Boston, this is it.

1Boston Common
3Granary Burying Ground
6Old State House
9Faneuil Hall
11Paul Revere House
12Old North Church
15USS Constitution
16Bunker Hill Monument

5.0 Boston Boston: Freedom Trail History Small Group Walking Tour 2 hours 30 minutes (approx.) $35.10 4.5 Boston Boston Freedom Trail Walking Tour with Costumed Guide 1 hour 45 minutes (approx.) $26.00 5.0 Boston Boston Food & History: Pizza, North End & Freedom Trail 5 hours (approx.) $90.86

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By Neighbourhood

Pick a Boston walk.

North End for the cannoli and the Paul Revere house. Beacon Hill for the gas lamps and cobblestones. Back Bay for the brownstones and the Public Garden. Cambridge for Harvard Square and the Charles. Fenway for the ballpark and the Sox.

Walks & tours North End Little Italy, cannoli, the Paul Revere house

Walks & tours Beacon Hill Cobblestones, gas lamps, brick row houses

Walks & tours Back Bay Brownstones, Newbury Street, the Public Garden

Walks & tours Cambridge Harvard Square, the Charles, the universities

Walks & tours Fenway America’s oldest ballpark, since 1912

Walks & tours Harvard The Yard, the Widener, the river houses

Only in Boston

Three things you can’t do anywhere else.

The oldest commissioned warship in the world is still tied up here. The oldest ballpark in baseball is still in use. And the actual stretch of harbour where the Revolution took its first night-time action sits a short walk from the T. Three Boston originals.

Old Ironsides, still commissioned

USS Constitution

The oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. Launched in 1797, named by Washington, undefeated in 33 engagements, and still on active duty in the US Navy. Active-service sailors in 1812 uniforms walk you across the deck at the Charlestown Navy Yard.

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Baseball’s oldest ballpark

Fenway Park

Opened 1912, five days before the Titanic sank. The Green Monster, the hand-operated scoreboard, the right-field Pesky Pole and the lone red seat where Ted Williams’ longest home run landed in 1946 are all still here. The oldest ballpark in MLB by 11 years.

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Where the Revolution started

Tea Party Ships

The exact stretch of harbour where 342 chests of East India tea went into Boston water on the night of 16 December 1773. Three replica brigs sit moored over the original site, complete with hold, holds the actual tea chest recovered from the floor.

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Beyond Boston

Pick a day out of the city.

Boston is a hub. Salem for the witches and the October light. Plymouth for the Pilgrim landing and Mayflower II. Newport for the Gilded Age mansions. Lexington and Concord for where the first shot of the Revolution was fired. All inside a 90-minute drive.

30 min north Witches & whaling Salem The 1692 witch trials are the headline, but Salem also has the Peabody Essex collection, a Hawthorne house, and a working harbour the maritime museum runs out of. The town leans into October like nowhere else in America. See the tours → 40 min south The Pilgrim landing Plymouth Plymouth Rock is small. The story isn’t. Mayflower II sits moored within sight of the original 1620 landing point, and Plimoth Patuxet a few miles south reconstructs both the Pilgrim village and the Wampanoag homesite for the year of arrival. See the tours → 90 min south Gilded Age mansions Newport The summer cottages the Vanderbilts and Astors built when summer cottages meant seventy rooms and a marble dining room. The Cliff Walk runs three miles along the Atlantic past most of them. America’s closest thing to an Edwardian Riviera. See the tours → 40 min west The shot heard ’round the world Lexington & Concord The Battle Green at Lexington and the North Bridge at Concord, where the American Revolution began on the morning of 19 April 1775. Minute Man National Historical Park covers both, with the colonial road still mostly intact between them. See the tours →

By Experience

Or pick how you want to see the city.

On a duck boat through the Charles. On a costumed guide’s Freedom Trail walk. On a harbor cruise out past the islands. By North End plate, by ballpark seat, by ghost lantern at night.