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...

A looming concrete-and-glass monolith designed by IM Pei (completed in 1979), this shrine to the life and work of the 35th US president overlooks the outer harbour from the top...

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...

Incongruously but elegantly set in the midst of modern skyscrapers and congested traffic, this former legislative house is the oldest surviving public building in Boston. It...

Built in 1680 - making it the oldest surviving structure in downtown Boston - the Paul Revere House was constructed on the site of the parsonage that was home to Puritan...

What child could resist sitting in a swan? A part of Boston tourist history, these odd watercraft were created by designer Robert Paget in 1877, when the swan-drawn boat in the...

Here's proof that Boston really is at the centre of the universe, or at least the world. The Mapparium - the world's largest walk-in globe - is among the city's quirkiest...

The unabashedly ornate Trinity Church is the visual centrepiece of Copley Square. And now that a much-needed, $47 million restoration project is complete, its interior murals...