Founded in 1807 as a literary society, the Boston Athenæum published America's first literary magazine and acquired an extensive library of books and works of art. It moved to...

This is actually two libraries. The original structure, designed by Charles McKim and completed in 1895, is now the research library, while an extension opened in 1972...

This 221ft granite obelisk commemorates the first major battle of the American Revolution. Technically speaking, it didn't go well for America: after a bloody conflict, the...

South Boston lays claim to one of the city's most appealing shoreline parks: the 22-acre Castle Island. It's also among the oldest fortified military sites in North America,...

Established in 1800 at the point where the Mystic and Charles Rivers converge, this was once the country's premier naval dockyard. Its most famous occupant is the USS...

The final resting place for around 10,000 early Bostonians, this cemetery was created on the northernmost hill of the Shawmut Peninsula in 1659. Once the site of the...

Built for the city by the wealthy merchant Peter Faneuil in 1742, the hall was later remodelled by ubiquitous Boston architect Charles Bulfinch. It had a dual function as a...

Completed in 1871, a year before HH Richardson began work on Copley Square's Trinity Church, the First Baptist Church is a similar mix of stone and wood surfaces. Richardson...

Literary giants EE Cummings, Eugene O'Neill and Anne Sexton are all buried here, as is the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison. The mile-long Contemporary Sculpture Path,...

So named because the adjacent Park Street Church was built on the site of a pre-Revolution storehouse for grain and supplies, the Granary Burying Ground is the third oldest...

Although the original King's Chapel - a small wooden structure - was built in the 1680s, the present one was designed by America's first architect, Peter Harrison, in 1754. The...

Designed by Bulfinch and completed in 1798, this magnificent structure replaced the old legislative building across Boston Common, which had been the headquarters of the...

This is the final resting place for Oliver Wendell Holmes, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Bulfinch and some 86,000 others. In fact, the cemetery is now so full that locals...

Originally called Christ Church in Boston, the city's oldest church was built in 1723, its design inspired by Sir Christopher Wren's London churches. It played a critical role...