Beacon Hill

• Boston Common and the Public Gardens sit right next to the Beacon Hill neighborhood, which is home to the Massachusetts State House, gaslit street lamps, cobblestone ways and brownstone mansions. Beacon Hill is accessible on the MBTA Red Line, with stops on Park Street and Charles/MGH.
  
  

Quincy Market/Faneuil Hall/Haymarket

• This is a downtown marketplace with dozens of shops, restaurants and bars. In warm weather, the public square is full of entertainers and impersonators of major historical figures. On weekends, Haymarket is an open-air produce and meat market and can make for fascinating people-watching.
  
  The MBTA has a stop at Haymarket.
  
  

The Freedom Trail

• Long ago, Boston recognized its potential as a tourist stops for lovers of American history. To make it easy for people to find the places they wanted to see, they painted a red stripe on the sidewalks downtown. This became the Freedom Trail and it is a self-guided tour of Boston's most important historical places: The USS Constitution, the Bunker HIll Monument and Paul Revere's house are among the many stops.
  
  

Copley Plaza/Prudential Center

• Copley Plaza and the Prudential Center are located in the city's Back Bay neighborhood and are home to hundreds of retail stores and restaurants.
  
  

Sports

• Sports are an undeniable part of Boston's culture. Fenway Park is home to the Boston Red Sox, and it is a handsome old-fashioned ballpark that is easily accessible by the Kenmore stop on the MBTA Green Line. The TDBankNorth Garden is home to the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins. The Garden is at the north end of downtown and is easily accessible via the MBTA Green Line's North Station stop.
  
  

North End

• Boston's historic North End is a European-style neighborhood and home to much of the city's Italian population. Its streets teem with coffee shops, restaurants, pastry shops and wine bars.
  
  

Theater District

• The Theater District begins at Tremont and Boylston streets downtown and is home to several performing-arts centers that host concerts, comedians and plays from small, black-box productions to Broadway blockbusters.
  
  

Museums

• Boston is home to some fine museums, the most famous of which is the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum of art. This is located in the Fenway neighborhood and has its own stop on the MBTA Green Line.
  
  The Boston Public Library is in the Back Bay neighborhood and has many free exhibts.
  
  

Colleges

• Boston is perhaps the world's biggest college town. While Harvard University are in neighboring Cambridge, they are extraordinarily popular tourist destinations. Harvard Yard and the MIT Campus have their own stops on the MBTA Red Line.
  
  Boston College, Northeastern University and Boston University are the city's other major tourist destination colleges, and they are easily accessible through their own stops on the MBTA Green Line.