Freedom Trail [1]: Follow the redbrick road from Boston Common to Bunker Hill.
New England Aquarium [2]: Sharks, penguins, and other ocean-dwellers await at this waterfront museum.
Mapparium [3]: A 30-foot-wide stained-glass globe of the world is one of the more unusual spaces in the city.
Fenway Park [4]: From the Green Monster to the bleachers, this ball field is a living shrine.
Museum of Fine Arts [5]: The French Impressionist paintings and Asian sculpture here are among the best anywhere.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum [6]: This Victorian jewel-box of a museum is as acclaimed for its building as for its art.
Harvard Museum of Natural History [7]: Meticulously hand-blown glass flowers are just the beginning of the wonders on display here.
Links:
[1] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/beacon-hill/freedom-trail
[2] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/financial-district/new-england-aquarium
[3] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/south-end/mapparium
[4] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/fenway/fenway-park
[5] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/fenway/museum-fine-arts
[6] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/sights/fenway/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum
[7] http://www.moon.com/destinations/new-england/massachusetts/boston/cambridge-and-somerville/sights/harvard-museum-natural-history