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...

The modest former home of the country's 35th president has been restored to its appearance at the time of his birth in 1917. It includes the earliest of presidential artefacts:...

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...

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...

George Washington made this pretty, 28-room mansion his Continental Army headquarters from 1775 to 1776, before following the war front further south. In 1837 it became a...

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...

This extremely child-friendly museum is committed to providing an interactive and educational experience, making science accessible through a wealth of hands-on activities and...

The breathtaking centrepiece of this excellent aquarium is the colossal 200,000-gallon salt-water replica of a Caribbean coral reef. The cylindrical tank, 40ft in diameter and...

One of the country's first cemeteries, the Old Burying Ground contains the remains of several early Puritan settlers as well as Revolutionary War veterans and victims.

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...

Second only to Faneuil Hall as a centre of dissent during Boston's Revolutionary era, the Old South Meeting House (1729) combines the simple design of a Puritan meeting house...

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 1809, the Park Street Church was known as 'Brimstone Corner' during the war of 1812 - not for its fiery sermons about hellfire and damnation, but because gunpowder was...