Quincy Market
Grab some take-out scrod
and hang with tourists and
townies in Quincy Market,
a bustling complex of
oddball stores, fast-food
restaurants and bars.
Harvard University Tour
The guides can be
annoyingly cheerful, but
it's worth taking a tour
of this impressive if
over-hyped bastion of
Ivy-League education - if
just for the oft-told tale
about how the iconic John
Harvard statue isn't
really a likeness of John
Harvard at all.
Durgin Park
Durgin Park has
been serving traditional
Yankee fare such as pot
roast and roast beef since
1827, and despite the
grumpy waiters, locals
still have rowdy fun at
the restaurant's long,
communal tables.
Fenway Park
Watch a game in Fenway
Park, the nation's most
storied and quirkiest
baseball stadium and home
to the legendary Green
Monster, Fenway's
towering, 37-foot
left-field wall.
Old North Church
It's disputed whether
church sexton Robert
Newman hung lanterns in
Old North Church's
steeple, warning Minutemen
of British movements in
the Revolutionary War, but
the church is still worth
a look for its eight old
bells (the first cast in
the New World) and ancient
clock.
Harvard Square
Harvard Square gets
particularly lively on
weekend nights, as a
sometimes volatile mix of
teen punks, religious
zealots, musicians and
students converge on the
university's social
center.
