Boston

One of the oldest and most influential children's museums in the U.S., on Fort Point Channel.

Floating museum with restored tea ships interpreting the events of December 16, 1773.

Intact Victorian Back Bay townhouse preserved as a museum of Gilded Age domestic life.

Contemporary art museum on the Boston waterfront in a landmark Diller Scofidio + Renfro building.

Venetian-inspired palazzo housing the personal collection of Isabella Stewart Gardner.

I.M. Pei–designed presidential library and museum devoted to the life and legacy of JFK.

Preserves and interprets African American history in Massachusetts through the Black Heritage Trail sites.

Encyclopedic art museum with nearly 500,000 works spanning ancient Egypt to contemporary art.

One of the world's largest science centers, with the Charles Hayden Planetarium and Mugar Omni Theater.

Bulfinch-attributed Beacon Hill townhouse preserved as the home of writer Rose Standish Nichols.

Boston's oldest surviving church building, famed for the 1775 "one if by land, two if by sea" signal.

Federal-style Bulfinch mansion, headquarters of Historic New England.

Colonial home of Paul Revere and the oldest remaining structure in downtown Boston.

Museum interpreting the history of USS Constitution — Old Ironsides — the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat.