Places arianalbear Wants to Go

These whimsical works of art tell the story of the city's past and present.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

American revolutionaries and British soldiers alike are buried here in the fourth-ever cemetery in Boston.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A memorial to Chinese freedom in the city where American freedom was born.

Statue commemorating the use of ether in anesthesia.

A unique music museum housed in a historic Boston theater.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Malcolm X's house during his most formative years faces an uncertain future.

America’s oldest community theater, this Boston club has been in operation since 1877.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This giant Boston statue of Mary is standing on a globe to show her power over the universe.

This small glass cube is a peaceful out-of-the-way sanctuary at the busy airport.

This beautiful architectural gem was the first waste treatment facility in Boston.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.