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Amusements

  • Museum of Science
    Science Park • Boston, MA 02114
    617-723-2500
    With over 550 interactive exhibits, Boston's only 180-degree wrap-around movie screen, the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Theater of Electricity and more, science comes alive at the Museum of Science. more...

Historic Homes & Buildings

  • Abiel Smith School (circa 1834)
    46 Joy Street • Boston, MA 02114
    617-739-1200
    This historic structure housed the first public school for African American children.   map

  • African Meeting House (circa 1806)
    8 Smith Court • Boston, MA 02114
    617-742-5415
    Built to house the first African Baptist Church of Boston and the first African American Baptist church created north of the Mason Dixon Line, the African Meeting House is now the oldest extant black church building in America. The meeting house, a National Historic Landmark, served as a recruitment post for the Massachusetts 54th Volunteer Regiment in 1863. more...  map

  • George Middleton House (circa 1787)
    5 Pinckney Street • Boston, MA 02114
    A Site Along the Black Heritage Trail
    An early leader in Boston’s African American community, activist George Middleton began constructing a two-family residence with Louis Glapion in 1786. A typical example of late 18th century Boston homes built by African Americans, this wooden structure is now the oldest extant home on Beacon Hill. The George Middleton House is a private residence and is not open to the public. more...  map

  • Harrison Gray Otis House
    141 Cambridge Street • Boston, MA 02114
    617-227-3956
    Tours are offered at this late Eighteenth Century home that was designed by Charles Bullfinch. The furnishings of this house museum represent the epitome of the high style and taste that pervaded the Boston upper class at the turn of the Nineteenth Century.  map

  • John C. Smith House
    86 Pinckney Street • Boston, MA 02110
    John J. Smith, a barber, abolitionist and a state legislator, lived here from 1878 to 1893. During the Civil War, Smith was a recruiter for Massachusetts African American regiments and for the Fifth Calvary. He also served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, as its third African American member, in 1868, 1869 and 1872, was the first African American to serve on the Boston Common Council and successfully worked to have the first African American appointed to the Boston police force. This home is a private residence. more...  map

  • King's Chapel (circa 1754)
    Corner of Tremont and School Streets • Boston, MA 02116
    617-227-2155
    King’s Chapel was the first Anglican Church established in Boston; the original structure was built adjacent to Boston’s burying ground in 1688, and when this structure had grown to be too small for the growing congregants, architect Peter Harrison designed the present building in 1749; construction was completed in 1754. Recognized as one of the five hundred most important buildings in America, and one of the finest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in America, the church was built with the aim of being a work of architecture that “would be the equal of any in England.”  map

  • Lewis & Harriet Hayden House, The
    66 Phillips Street • Boston, MA 02108
    A Site Along the Black Heritage Trail
    "One of Boston’s most visible and militant African American abolitionists," Lewis Hayden and his family "routinely cared for self-emancipated African Americans at their home, which served as a boarding house." The Lewis & Harriet Hayden House is a private residence that is not open to the public.  map

  • Massachusetts State House (circa 1795)
    Beacon Streets • Boston, MA 02115
    617-727-3676
    Weekday Tours of the Massachusetts State House are conducted.

  • Old Corner Bookstore
    1 School Street • Boston, MA 02108
    617-367-4000
    Now a Boston Globe store, this is one of the oldest surviving structures in Boston, having been built in 1712, and was the site of the publication of many important works of literature, including Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden,” and the Atlantic Monthly Magazine.   map

  • Old North Church (circa 1723)
    193 Salem Street • Boston, MA 02113
    617-523-6676
    Boston’s oldest church that is still in use, this church is famed for being the church where the lanterns were hung in order to convey the famous message to Bostonians that alerted them to the imminent approach of the British during the Revolutionary War; it is from here that the lighted lanterns proclaimed: “The British are coming!”  map

  • Old South Meeting House
    310 Washington Street • Boston, MA 02108
    617-482-6439
    Lectures and concerts are frequently offered at this historic meeting house that was an early Puritan house of worship.   map

  • Old State House (circa 1713)
    Corner of State and Washington Streets • Boston, MA 02109
    617-720-3290
    The oldest public building in Boston, this structure was the seat of the Colonial government and the site of the debates that culminated in the war for independence from Britain.   map

  • Park Street Church
    1 Park Street • Boston, MA 02108
    617-523-3383
    This historic church is the site where William Lloyd Garrison gave his first anti-slavery addresses in 1829.  map

  • Paul Revere House (circa 1680)
    19 North Square • Boston, MA 02113
    617-523-2338
    One of the oldest buildings in Boston, this structure was the home of American patriot and silversmith Paul Revere; the house is now a museum that explores the life of Paul Revere and the significant part that he played in history. more...  map

  • Phillips School, The (circa 1823-1825)
    Corner of Pinckney and Anderson Streets • Boston, MA 02114
    A Site Along the Black Heritage Trail
    617-742-5415
    Prior to becoming a private residence, this building was used by the English High School before becoming a grammar school in 1844. Named after the first mayor of Boston, John Phillips, father of famed abolitionist Wendell Phillips; the Phillips School became one of the first integrated schools in Boston when area schools were integrated in 1855. The Phillips School moved to a new building on Phillips Street (formerly Southac Street) in 1863. Elizabeth Smith, daughter of abolitionist John J. Smith, started teaching at the Phillips School in the early 1870s, and was probably the first African American to teach in an integrated Boston public school. more...  map

  • Smith Court Residences
    Smith Court • Boston, MA 02114
    617-742-5415
    "The historic homes on Smith Court, along with the African Meeting House and the Abiel Smith School, are the best preserved physical locales available for understanding the history of African Americans in Boston." Most are private residences and are not open to the public. more...

Historic Sites & Monuments

  • Boston African American National Historic Site
    14 Beacon Street, Suite 401 (Mail) • Boston, MA 02108
    617-742-5415
    A walking tour of this historic district reveals and explores the history of the African American community that populated this area of Boston in the 1800's. The area features several important historical structures, including the African American Meeting House, the oldest standing African American church in the United States; Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial and the Charles Street Meeting House.  map

  • Boston Massacre Site
    Next to Old State House • Boston, MA 02114
    This is the infamous site that saw the deadly clash between British troops and an unruly mob of Colonials in 1770.

  • Boston Women's Heritage Trail
    22 Holbrook Street • Boston, MA 02130
    617-522-2872
    During a trip on this enlightening trail, one will pay honour to and learn about the contributions and achievements made by women in such divergent roles as patriot, abolitionist, suffragist, intellectual, artist and writer. The tours encompass such areas as Beacon Hill, the North End, Chinatown, and Downtown Boston. more...  map

  • Forest Hills Cemetery
    95 Forest Hills Avenue • Boston, MA 02130
    617-524-0128
    This one-hundred-fifty-year-old garden cemetery encompasses more than two hundred fifty acres and is the final resting place of such luminaries as playwright Eugene O’Neill and poet E.E. Cummings.   map

  • Freedom Trail-Boston Nat'l Historical Park
    15 State Street • Boston, MA 02109
    617-242-1542
    On this walking tour, one can take a leisurely, informative and illustrative stroll through three hundred fifty years of American history by following a red line on the sidewalk that begins at the Boston Common and leads for two and a half miles that map the history of Boston during the last three and a half centuries.   map

  • Granary Burying Ground
    Park and Tremont Streets • Boston, MA 02114
    This historic cemetery, founded in 1660, is the third oldest burying ground in Boston proper. Granary Burying Ground is the final resting place of such notable historical figures as John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and Crispus Attucks, one of the victims of the Boson Massacre. more...

  • Irish Famine Memorial
    Washington and School Streets • Boston, MA 02108
    Boston, MA
    This memorial commemorates the great migration to America by the Irish who were fleeing the Great Hunger of 1847 that threatened to decimate all of Ireland.

  • New England Holocaust Memorial
    Congress Street • Boston, MA 02210
    Near Faneuil Hall
    617-457-0755
    These luminous towers stand as beacons of hope that humanity may learn to treat fellow human beings and the world with compassion; the towers also stand as stark reminders of the tragedy of the Jewish Holocaust that is one of the black spots on the history of the Twentieth Century. Urging those who view the towers to never “give evil another chance,” Philosopher and Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel says of these towers: “Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean--- what they symbolize--- what they evoke. They evoke an era of incommensurate darkness, an era in history when civilization lost its humanity and humanity its soul…” It is a reminder to the people of today and tomorrow to be always on guard against such evil arising again in the world.  more...

  • Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial
    Beacon Street • Boston, MA 02114
    A Site Along the Black Heritage Trail
    617-742-5415
    Located across Beacon Street from the State House, this Augustus Saint-Gaudens-designed memorial commemorates the first African American regiment that served in the Civil War. With Colonel Shaw shown on horseback with three rows of infantry men marching behind him, the scene depicts the 54th Regiment marching down Beacon Street on May 28, 1863 as they left Boston to head south. Paid for by private donations, the monument was unveiled in a ceremony on May 31, 1897. In 1982, 64 names of known soldiers who died at the Battle of Fort Wagner were inscribed on the back of the monument. more...

  • Site of First Public School and Franklin Statute (circa 1635)
    School Street • Boston, MA 02114
    This site commemorates the first public school in the United States, which opened in 1635 and had pupils such as Samuel Adams and Benjamin Franklin; at a later date it became the historic Boston Latin School, which is still in existence elsewhere in Boston. Directly across the street from the plaque that commemorates the site of the school stands a famous statue of Benjamin Franklin.

Libraries & Research Centers

  • Boston History Library
    15 State Street, Third Floor • Boston, MA 02109
    617-720-1713
    Run under the aegis of the Bostonian Society, the Boston History Library includes a vast array of textual and visual material, with over seven thousand books, thirty thousand photographs, two thousand architectural drawings, four hundred maps, and a large collection of manuscript materials. The collections have been gathered to reflect the culture and history of Boston through chronicling aspects of the city’s ethnic groups, neighbourhoods, social classes, and the political, social and economic forces that have shaped Boston. more...  map

  • Boston Public Library
    700 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02116
    Boston
    617-536-5400
    Situated in a gorgeous Italian Renaissance style building, with a courtyard, sculptures, murals and paintings, the Boston Public Library was established in 1848 as the first publicly supported municipal library in the United States. The idea of letting the public borrow books and materials began here, and was quite a revolutionary concept at the time; today the library has twenty seven branches, a collection of over six million books, and serves over two million people in the Boston area. more...  map

Museums & Galleries

  • Boston Tea Party Ship and Museum
    Congress Street Bridge • Boston, MA 02210
    Boston, MA
    617-338-1773
    This ship and museum is a replica of the ship that was the site of the notorious protest against taxation that took place on December 16, 1773, and became known as the Boston Tea Party because British tea was thrown overboard into the harbour.  more...

  • Captain Forbes House Museum
    215 Adams Street • Milton, MA 02186
    617-696-1815
    Designed by Boston architect Isaiah Rogers in 1833, this Greek Revival mansion was the home of Captain Robert Bennet Forbes, an internationally known China Trade merchant, ship owner, designer, writer, and philanthropist. A National Historic Landmark, this home was restored to the period of the early 1870's when it was remodeled by Peabody & Sterns. Established in 1984, the Forbes House Charitable Trust helps to ensure the preservation of the house, collections, and grounds. Tours, lectures, programs, and special exhibitions and events are available throughout the year. The museum contains an extensive collection of Abraham Lincoln memorabilia.  more...  map

  • Children's Museum
    300 Congress Street • Boston, MA 02210
    Boston
    617-426-8855
    This museum for children features fun, entertaining, hands-on exhibits and programs that encourage learning and acquisition of knowledge about the world and science in ways that are active and enjoyable; voted one of the top three children’s museums in the nation, this museum also provides a fun alternative for birthday parties, offers school programs, hosts an art studio to encourage creativity in children, and runs a recycling program to encourage ecological awareness while, at the same time, doing something practical to help the earth.  more...  map

  • Christian Science Church Center
    175 Huntington Avenue • Boston, MA 02115
    617-450-3790
    This Modern-style building designed by architect I.M. Peiis is the International Headquarters of Christian Science. Public tours are available.  map

  • Dreams of Freedom Cultural Exhibit Center
    International Institute of Boston/ 1 Milk Street • Boston, MA 02109
    Boston, MA
    617-695-9990
    This museum takes one through a multimedia journey that explores the disparate experiences of a wide array of cultures that went through the often arduous process of immigration to the United States in search of freedom and the realization of dreams. more...

  • First Church of Christ Scientist
    175 Huntington Avenue • Boston, MA 02115
    617-450-3793
    The most outstanding feature of this church structure is a thirty-foot stained glass globe room that offers visitors a view of the earth from the inside.  map

  • Gibson House Museum
    137 Beacon Street • Boston, MA 02116
    617-267-6338
    Dating from the middle of the Nineteenth Century, this house museum preserves in pristine form the elegance of well-to-do Victorian families in Boston; as well as having preserved the original furnishings from the period, the kitchen, butler’s pantry, scullery, bathrooms, formal rooms and private quarters have been kept unaltered and serve as a window through which to glimpse the past. more...  map

  • Institute of Contemporary Art
    955 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02115
    617-266-5152
    Since 1936 this museum has brought the best of contemporary art to Boston, including works by such now famous names as Picasso and Warhol; the museum today continues the mission of serving as the vanguard of contemporary art. While offering continuing and changing exhibitions that bring the best of contemporary art in the areas of painting, sculpture, and a variety of other media, the Institute of Contemporary Art also offers a variety of educational programs to the public.  more...  map

  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
    280 The Fenway • Boston, MA 02115
    617-566-1401
    With a flower-filled courtyard, this museum is located in a Fifteenth Century Venetian-style building and features changing exhibits of traveling exhibitions, as well as exhibits from the museum’s collection that includes paintings, sculptures, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver work, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, photographs, and rare books that are of immense importance globally and represent Asia, the Islamic world, Nineteenth Century Europe and America, Ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, and the Italy of the Renaissance. In addition to the many fine exhibitions, the Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum is also a preeminent centre of scholarly and historical research and studies. more...  map

  • John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum
    Columbia Road • Columbia Point, MA 02125
    617-514-1600
    The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum was designed to help preserve the memory of the 35th President. Displays, multi-media exhibits, period settings, and theaters help recreate JFK's life and careers.  more...  map

  • Museum of African American History
    46 Joy Street • Boston, MA 02119
    Beacon Hill
    617-725-0022
    New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving and interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century, the Museum of African American History offers art exhibits, tours, lectures, films and concerts that trace the history of African Americans in the United States. more...  map

  • Museum of Fine Arts
    465 Huntington Avenue • Boston, MA 02115
    617-267-9300
    The largest art museum in New England, the museum of Fine Arts features a world-renowned collection of art; with the goal of representing diverse cultures and disparate eras throughout history, the museum preserves and presents works that have earned a cultural preeminence, with the goal of engaging an ever widening array of people in direct encounters with great art. The collections represent art from Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, the Classical World, Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe through 1900, Native American Art, American Art to 1900, and the Modern World.  more...  map

  • Nichols House Museum
    55 Mount Vernon Street • Boston, MA 02108
    617-227-6993
    This house museum preserves and elucidates both its Federal Period origins and the lifestyle of the occupants that used the structure at the turn of the Twentieth Century; the four-storey house was constructed in 1804, and is considered a significant example of “early domestic architecture on Beacon Hill.” The house is also noted for having been the residence of Rose Standish Nichols from 1872 to 1960; Nichols is famed as a writer, landscape architect, a founder of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and as the author of three volumes on the gardens of Europe that have become classic reference sources on the subject. more...  map

  • Sports Museum of New England
    Causeway Street • Boston, MA 02114
    Fleet Center
    617-787-7678
    With a wide array of displays that trace the history and defining moments of various sports, this museum takes as its main mission the use of sports to “ teach the values of leadership, respect and cooperation to youth, while honouring leading citizens and athletes of New England.” more...

Parks, Gardens & Zoos

  • Boston Common
    790 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02199
    617-723-3825, 800-226-7442
    This tour company conducts both land and water cruises aboard amphibious vehicles. Thought at first to be a crazy idea in the Boston area, these tours have continued to grow in popularity since their inception. more...

  • Boston Knolls Park
    107 Weathervane Lane • Boston, MA 02125
    A forested walkway provides a chance to relax with nature within the city limits of Boston; the park also features a playground with swings, a softball diamond, a tennis court, and a trail that connects to North Park.

  • Franklin Park Zoo
    1 Franklin Park Road • Boston, MA 02121
    617-442-2002
    The Franklin Park Zoo covers seventy two acres within Boston’s historic Franklin Park, and features exhibits of animals that reflect and explore such diverse environs as the “Giraffe Savannah, Kalahari Kingdom, Butterfly Landing, Tropical Forest, Australian Outback, and Serengeti Crossing.” Founded in 1911, the zoo is now home to more than two hundred twenty species of animals. more...  map

  • North Park
    3595 Grafton Road • Boston, MA 02125
    Holiday Hills
    330-273-8040
    This park is comprised of approximately fifty-seven acres, inlcuding a five-acre lake that provides the chance for aquatic studies of reptiles, amphibians, birds, and more; in addition to many forested and natural areas, such as wetlands, a creek, wildlife viewing and fishing, the park also offers a playground, picnic facilities and grills, a sledding hill, and restrooms.

  • Public Garden
    Between Arlington and Charles Streets • Boston, MA 02114
    The Boston Public Garden features formal gardens, rare trees, and the new addition of a sculpture of a mother duck followed by her train of ducklings.

Science & Technology

  • Boston Harbor Islands
    408 Atlantic Avenue, Suite 228 • Boston, MA 02110
    617-223-8666
    Operated under the aegis of the National Park System, the Boston Harbour Islands Park includes ten islands, a learning centre, a park store, and chances for exploration, fishing, camping, picnicking, guided tours, swimming, and exploring historic sites; access to the islands is provided by ferry and shuttle services.  more...  map

  • New England Aquarium
    Central Wharf • Boston, MA 02110
    617-973-5200
    Situated on the Central Wharf in Boston, this aquarium features over two thousand species of exotic fish, sharks, sea turtles, a penguin colony, sea lion shows, and a hands-on tide pool exhibit; in addition to the many interesting and informative travelling exhibits and permanent collections, the aquarium plays an important role in the area of science and research, with programs in conservation, animal rescue and preservation, a lecture series, and educational programs for both adults and children. more...

  • Skywalk Observatory
    800 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02199
    Prudential Tower, 50th floor
    617-236-3318
    Located on the fiftieth floor of the Prudential Tower, the Skywalk Observatory offers the only three-hundred-sixty-degree panoramic view of Boston.  map

Tours & Cruises

  •   Authentic Gondola Tours of Boston Authentic Gondola Tours of Boston BOOK
    Located on the Charles River at The Esplanade
    617-876-2800
    Boston's only authentic gondolas, straight from Venice, Italy. All tours are private - meaning you will have the gondola exclusively to your party. Live accordion music, cheese, crackers and chocolates. Bring your own beverage (champagne, wine, etc.) they provide the glasses, ice and ice pails. Reservations are required. Runs Wednesdays through Sundays from Noon until 12 p.m., May through November.  more...  map

  • PhotoWalks
    617-851-2273
    PhotoWalks offers five guided walking tours of Boston presented with historic commentary and creative photography tips. All ages and skill levels welcome. Advance reservations are required.  more...

  • A C Cruise Line
    290 Northern Avenue • Boston, MA 02116
    617-261-6633, 800-422-8419
    This cruise line offers maritime cruises and tours in the vicinity of Boston. more...  map

  • Beantown Trolley
    781-986-6100, 800-343-1328
    This company offers narrated trolley tours of Boston. more...

  • Ben Franklin's Boston
    1 Milk Street • Boston, MA 02108
    781-648-0628
    One can explore the Boston of Benjamin Franklin by taking this tour along the Freedom Trail.  map

  • Boston Adventures
    Back Bay, Box 541 • Boston, MA 02116
    617-430-1900
    This guided walking tour begins at the Boston Common.

  • Boston by Foot
    617-367-2345
    These walking tours explore such areas as the Freedom Trail, the Back Bay, the North End, and Beacon Hill.

  • Boston by Sea
    60 Rowes Wharf • Boston, MA 02110
    617-542-8000
    A fun, fascinating, one-of-a-kind cruise that tells in story and song how Boston Harbor helped shape the history of the city and a nation. more...  map

  • Boston Duck Tours
    790 Boylston Street • Boston, MA 02199
    617-723-3825, 800-226-7442
    This tour company conducts both land and water cruises aboard amphibious vehicles. Thought at first to be a crazy idea in the Boston area, these tours have continued to grow in popularity since their inception. more...  map

  • Boston Harbor Cruises
    One Long Wharf • Boston, MA 02110
    White Ticket Center
    617-227-4321
    Boston Harbour Cruises offers whale watching cruises, harbour site seeing tours, ferries to functions, private charters, and entertainment.  more...  map

  • Boston Private Tours
    48 Cerdan Avenue • Boston, MA 02131
    978-771-4471
    Tailored tours by retired teachers of Greater Boston. Small to large personalized group tours of Boston, Lexington, Concord, Plymouth, Salem and more. Themes include history, archictecture, literary, scenic, etc.  more...  map

  • Boston Spirits
    781-235-7149
    This unique supernatural walking tour takes one on a ninety minute journey to the most infamous of Boston’s haunted locations.

  • Boston Tours By Season
    617-876-2800
    Tour Boston and Massachusetts all year. Boston, Massachusetts, is the heart of New England and offers four great seasons of attractions and events. While most tours and tour operators take a break and shut down for the fall and winter seasons, they come alive with new fun, exciting and adventurous private tours. Did you know that you could be on a snowmobile trail or a ski slope in less than an hour from Boston? How about night skiing by lantern or a holiday lighting tour through the suburbs of Boston. Call for an exciting snowmobile tour. more...

  • Boston Walks
    617-489-5020
    The walking tours offered by this organization explore ethnic histories and neighbourhoods, with tours that emphasize such ethnicities as Irish, Italian and Jewish.

  • Brush Hill Tours of Boston
    16 South Charles Street • Boston, MA 02116
    781-986-6100, 800-343-1328
    Tours of Boston, Salem, Plymouth, Cape Cod, Newport, Maine and New Hampshire are offered by this operation. more...  map

  • Ghosts of Boston Walking Tours
    45 School Street • Boston, MA 02108
    Old City Hall
    Take a thrilling 90 minute fully-narrated tour through Boston's historic district. You will hear tales of hauntings, heroes, witches, pirates, sea captains, political giants, and ghosts. The tour will also guide you through the famous Granary Burying Ground and King's Chapel Burying Ground where you will hear spine-chilling stories of literary greats and other historic legends.  map

  • Innovation Odyssey
    50 Beacon Street, Suite 403 • Boston, MA 02215
    617-350-0358
    On these tours one may ride into the stories of the inventors and visionaries whose creations established Boston as a Mecca of innovation; one may travel the route of the revolutionary thinkers who made each site a landmark of discovery.  map

  • Liberty Fleet: Boston's Tall Ship Adventures
    67 Long Wharf • Boston, MA 02210
    617-742-0333
    Come aboard the Liberty Clipper, a 125' schooner reminiscent of the classic wind-driven coastal schooners of the mid-1800's. It is available for sailing tours and such private events as weddings and corporate meetings. Help recreate the Boston Tea Party, participate in a race, navigate, or just relax. The possibilities on the Liberty Clipper are endless. more...

  • Literary Trail of Greater Boston
    650 Beacon Street, Suite 403 • Boston, MA 02215
    617-350-0358
    This twenty-mile trail winds through some of the most fertile literary terrain in the country; the lives of some of the greatest poets and authors of Nineteenth Century America are explored as the trail winds through Boston, Cambridge, and Concord. One will visit homes, gathering places and landscapes that are associated with the various writers.  more...  map

  • Maritime History Trail and Walking Tour
    650 Beacon Street Suite 403 • Boston, MA 02111
    Custom House Concierge Desk
    617-350-0358
    These maritime tours, led by costumed guides, explore two hundred years of Boston’s rich waterfront history. In addition, a walking tour of the Long Wharf, and a self-guided tour along the harbor are offered.   map

  • Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company
    306 Northern Avenue • Boston, MA 02210
    617-574-9551
    Tours and tastings are conducted on Fridays and Saturdays at the Massachusetts Bay Brewing Company.  map

  • MassBay Lines
    60 Rowes Wharf • Boston, MA 02210
    617-542-8000
    Among the most popular of the many cruises offered by this company is the narrated harbour tour aboard a paddlewheel steamboat replica; with eight vessels from which to choose, some modern and some more nostalgic, one can opt for harbour tours, whale watching tours, moonlight and sunset cruises, and music cruises. The cruises and tours also offer dining, beverages, and entertainment.  more...  map

  • Minuteman Tours
    380 Dorchester Avenue • Boston, MA 02127
    617-269-3626
    Minuteman Tours offers narrated trolley tours of Boston and Cambridge.  map

  • Odyssey
    Rowes Wharf • Boston, MA 02210
    617-654-9700, 800-946-7245
    Lunch and dinner yacht cruises, with live music and dancing, are offered by Odyssey cruises; any size party can be accommodated, from a party of two, to an event for hundreds. more...

  • Old Town Trolley
    617-269-7010
    Old Town Trolley offers narrated trolley tours of historic sections of Boston. more...

  • Spirit of Boston
    164 Northern Avenue • Boston, MA 02210
    617-748-1499
    The Spirit of Boston features narrated lunch cruises and dinner cruises with Broadway-style shows. more...  map

  • Tall Ship Excursions
    Long Wharf • Boston, MA 02110
    Located at Waterboat Marina
    617-262-1119
    Each sail of the traditional square-rigged tall ship Formidable includes a presentation relating to museum displays in the salon. more...  map

Vineyards, Wineries & Breweries

  • Boston Beer Company
    One Design Center, Suite 850 • Boston, MA 02130-2312
    Samuel Adams Beer
    The Boston Beer Company is America's leading brewer of handcrafted, full-flavored beers. Founder and Brewer, Jim Koch, brews Samuel Adams® beers using the time-honored, traditional four-vessel brewing process, and the world's finest all-natural ingredients. With 18 distinctive, award-winning styles of beer, Samuel Adams offers discerning beer drinkers a variety of brews. The brewery has won more awards in international beer-tasting competitions in the last five years than any other brewery in the world. Samuel Adams is an independent brewery and has half of a percent of the domestic beer market.  more...  map

  • Harpoon Brewery
    306 Northern Avenue • Boston, MA 02210
    As New England's largest craft brewery, they continue a proud brewing tradition of being a good neighbor to the people who enjoy Harpoon IPA, UFO Hefeweizen, and a variety of brewery-fresh beers. Visit their online brewery, to learn more about Harpoon, beer styles, brewery festivals, Harpoon Helps, and much more.  more...  map

  • Samuel Adams® Brewery
    30 Germania Street • Boston, MA 02130
    Located in the Jamaica Plain Neighborhood
    617-368-5080
    Tours at the brewery are held on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 2:00 p.m., Fridays at 2:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., and on Saturdays between the hours of 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. every half hour. Enjoy viewing the brewing process, tasting special malts, and smelling the Hallertau and Tettnang hops on the tour of one of America's favorite beers. more...

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