Boston - Places to Visit
Faneuil Hall Marketplace
Faneuil Hall is the lively core of Boston's historic waterfront, and the nation's premier urban marketplace. Housed in 3 beautifully restored 19th century buildings, its 100 shops and 14 restaurants offer tantalizing delicacies & unique gifts in a festive atmosphere that spills onto cobblestone streets filled with an amazing variety of street performers.
top ↑Plimoth Plantation - The Living History Museum of 17th Century Plimoth
New England's roots are in Plimoth where you'll find Mayflower II, the Pilgrim Village and Indian Homesite and the past just waiting to be experienced. Plimoth Plantation is also pleased to offer a wide variety of dining experiences. Menus range from exciting and unique re-creations of 17th century cuisine at to the best of sophisticated contemporary fare.
top ↑America and The Freedom Trail!
The Freedom Trail Foundation celebrates Boston's history. They reveal stories about the people, the places, the events and the drama of the American Revolution, and share lively anecdotes about the vitality of contemporary Boston. The Foundation promotes and helps to preserve the sixteen nationally significant historic sites along the red brick path, our country's cherished places where American patriotism and American democracy were born. With 3 million visitors walking the freedom trail it is a popular activity with tourists and locals.
top ↑Museum of Science
The Science Museum is a world-renowned educational institution with over 500 interactive exhibits featuring live animal and physical science demonstrations and travelling exhibits. In 2009 began construction on a roof top wind Turbine lab which tests nine wind turbines from five different manufactures on the roof of the museum. 600 interactive exhibits let visitors explore the world around them, daily live presentations, science theatre and 15-foot lightning bolts. The Museum offers a number of special exhibitions & theatre shows throughout the year.
top ↑New England Aquarium
The Aquarium host colourful & educational exhibits featuring more than 8000 aquatic creatures. Highlights include a 4-story glass ocean tank that houses a coral reef display plus an outstanding variety of fishes, sharks & sea turtles.
top ↑Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum of Fine Arts offers one of the greatest gifts Boston has to give - Discovery. For young and old, for first-time visitor and familiar friends, every turn yields a new experience.
top ↑Minute Man National Park
Created in 1959, Minute Man National Historical Park preserves and protects the significant historic sites, structures, properties and landscapes associated with the opening battles of the American Revolution. Most importantly, Minute Man interprets the colonial struggle for natural rights and freedoms. Today, Minute Man consists of over 900 acres of land, which wind along original segments of the Battle Road for April 19, 1775.
top ↑Salem Witch Museum
"She afflicts me! She comes to me at night and torments me! She's a witch!" Words such as these struck terror into the Salem townspeople in the spring of 1692 as hysterical young girls called out names. By summer, hundreds had been accused and imprisoned - defenceless against accusations of witchcraft in a society driven by superstition and fear. The Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692.
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