Where Else To Go In Boston

For the most part, the best stuff to do in Boston is even better with a guide. This includes Downtown Boston/The Freedom Trail, Faneuil Hall/Quincy Market, The North End (Boston’s Little Italy), Beacon Hill, the Back Bay, Boston Public Gardens, Harvard/Harvard Square, MIT, Boston College, Boston University, Old Cambridge, Lexington and Concord, and the many haunted places on our Ghost Tours. But! If you really don’t want a guide with you, all those places are still worth a visit, and the neighborhoods worth exploring. In addition, here are our favorite places:

Boston Tea Party Ships

Great for kids, and they have their own experience/guides.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

While we offer a tour here, it is also enjoyable without us! We really just want to spread the love, and think this museum is Boston’s best kept secret.

Harvard Museum of Natural History

Fenway Park

To get inside without watching a game, you must take the Fenway Park Tour, and we can only tag along at best. But this is the nation’s oldest baseball park. So even if you aren’t a sports nerd, history nerds have something to cling to, as well. Plus, you get to go on top of the Green Monster on the Tour. It’s a good one.

Mapparium

There is no way to describe this without over-inflating it or making it sound lame, so here it goes: the Mapparium is a really cool map of the world in 1935, made from 608 glass panels, that you walk inside. It’s 30 feet wide, and the echo chamber alone makes the $5 to get in worth it. But there’s also nothing like it anywhere on the planet. A favorite hidden treasure. This can be worked into any Step-On tours, but is tough to incorporate into a walking tour path.

Mapparium

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

The collection itself is impressive, but there are few museums like this in the world. Formerly the rich lady’s house, its walls must remain exactly as they’ve always been. Also the site of the world’s most expensive art theft!

Museum of Fine Art

Again, we do have a tour inside this place, but they also offer their own docent-led tours for free, even if they are a bit more focused on art than stories. It’s just an amazing museum, and we don’t even cover the Asian or Egyptian collections.

Museum of Fine Art

Boston Children’s Museum

An excellent way to kill some time if you’re traveling with kids. It’s expensive, so be warned, but if your child is between 4 and 11, you’re in the sweet spot for this place, and could probably let the kids loose for 2-3 hours before they’re done exploring and tired enough to let you eat lunch in peace.