Massachusetts

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston
Pier 39
Lori-Ann Donut Shop (glazed)
Aujourd’hui (food)
Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel
Copley Square (1/2 price tickets after 11 am)
Steve’s Greek Restaurant
The Computer Museum
Boston Duck Tour
National Theater of Greece (performances)
Charlie’s
Hyatt Regency on Charles River
LA Burdick (orange-flavored chocolate mice, hot chocolate, ganache on shortbread)
Jimmy’s Harborside Restaurant
Eastern Pier Seafood Restaurant
No Name Restaurant
Anthony’s Pier
The Barking Crab (shellfish, clam bake, chowder)
Mary Chung (homemade Chinese, General Gau chicken)
JP Licks (ice cream)
Harvard Square Bookshops: McIntyre and Moore (ancient/medieval); Out of Town News (int’l newspapers): Globe Corner (travel), Wordsworth
Boston Harbor’s Long Wharf (one-hour cruise at lunchtime for cheap)
Charlestown Navy Yard (USS Constitution; WWII destroyer)
Museum of Fine Arts (free Weds 4-10 pm)
Computer Museum
Fenway Park (hourly tours)
Fenway Diner
Hatch Shell (free Friday films in summer)
Esplanade (free Boston Pops concerts)
Christian Science Center’s Mapparium (walk-thru globe turned inside-out)
Museum of Comparative Zoology (free Sats 9-12)
Bell Atlantic Library (AG Bell’s lab)
Boston University (star-gazing Weds 8:30 pm)
Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (free star-gazing every 3rd Thurs)
Four Seasons (Vienniese dessert buffet (Fri and Sat nights)
Boston Light on Brewster Island (staffed lighthouse)
Polcari’s Coffeshop (lemon slushie)
Warren Tavern (clam chowder, Paul Revere ate here)
Baraka Cafe (chocolate cake)
Daily Catch (calamari meatballs)
Pizzeria Regina
Mike’s City Diner (fresh turkey everything, Pilgrim sandwich, fruit on pancakes,
Brattle Book Shop
Union Oyster House (oldest restaurant in town--shuckers throw out any that are not top quality; New England seafood--clam chowder, oysters, shrimp, mussels)3
Hilltop Steakhouse (same menu since 1961)
Eagle's Deli and Restaurant (Reilly burger, burgers)3
Langham Hotel (chocolate bar: soup, crepes, fountain, cotton candy; in Cafe Fleury every Saturday from Sept to June)3



Boston Harbor Islands (leave from Long Wharf)
George’s (ferry destination)
Grape (hiking)
Gallop’s (beaches)
Lovell’s (camping)
Bumpkin (trails to old farmhouse, hospital)
Little Brewster (tour Coast Guard-manned lighthouse and island)

Brookline
Frederick Law Olmstead National Historic Site
Allandale Farm (farm stand)

Cambridge
Harvard Medical College (Countway Library of Medicine--5th floor; Phineas Gage’s skull and the tamping iron that went thru it)
Mount Auburn Cemetery (Winslow Homer, Longfellow, Isabella Stewart Gardner)


Concord
Walden Pond (swim in it)
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Hawthorne, Alcotts, Emerson, Thoreau)

Gloucester
Ravenswood Park (easy hiking)
Thomas Lannon (sailing ship)
Beauport (unique mansion with secret passages)

Lowell
urban rafting

Lenox
Tanglewood (musical concerts)

Marblehead
Old Burial Hill (view, Rev War soldiers)

North Andover
Barker Farm (pick-your-own apples)

North Adams
Museum of History and Science

Onset
Porter Thermometer Museum

Pigeon Cove
Halibut Point (museum, quarry tours, tide pools)

Salem
Charter Street Cemetery (Puritans)

Spencer
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Weston
Cardinal Spellman Philatelic Museum (stamps)

Worcester
Mac’s Diner