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Flagstaff Hill
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Ether Monument
On the lagoon’s northwest side, the Ether Monument commemorates the first use of anesthesia (in Boston) for medical purposes.
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St Peter’s Square
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Don’t leave Gloucester without paying your respects at St Peter's Square, where Leonard Craske’s famous statue, Gloucester Fisherman is dedicated to ‘They That Go Down to the Sea in Ships, 1623–1923.’
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Pebble Beach
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Long Beach
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Halibut Point State Park
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Dock Square
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Bearskin Neck
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Back Beach
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Annisquam Lighthouse
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Tisch Children's Zoo
Attached to the Central Park Zoo, Tisch Children’s Zoo is a petting zoo which has alpacas and mini-Nubian goats and is perfect for small children.
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Madonna’s first New York home
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Essex Street Market
This 60-year-old historic shopping destination is the local place for produce, seafood, butcher-cut meats, cheeses, Latino grocery items, and even a barber’s shop and small art gallery. Though the legendary local stall of Schapiro’s kosher wine disappeared with the 2007 death of the company founder, now newer spots, like Formaggio Essex, with a grand display of artisanal cheeses, or Roni-Sue’s Chocolates, are attracting a new-generation clientele who want to shop in an old-school environment.
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Chelsea Piers
This massive waterfront sports center caters to the athlete in everyone. You can set out to hit a bucket of golf balls at the four-level driving range, ice skate in the complex’s indoor rink or rent in-line skates to cruise along the new Hudson River Park waterfront bike path – all the way down to Battery Park. There’s a jazzy bowling alley, Hoop City for basketball, a sailing school for kids, batting cages, a huge gym facility with an indoor pool (day passes for nonmembers are $50), indoor rock-climbing walls – the works. There’s even waterfront dining and drinking at the Chelsea Brewing Company, which serves great pub fare and delicious home-brews for you to carb-load…
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Chelsea Hotel
It’s probably not any great shakes as far as hotels go – and besides, it mainly houses long-term residents – but as a place of mythical proportions, the Chelsea Hotel is top of the line. The red-brick hotel, featuring ornate iron balconies and no fewer than seven plaques declaring its literary landmark status, has played a major role in pop-culture history. It’s where the likes of Mark Twain, Thomas Wolfe, Dylan Thomas and Arthur Miller hung out; Jack Kerouac allegedly crafted On the Road during one marathon session here, and it’s where Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dylan Thomas died of alcohol poisoning while staying here in 1953, and Nancy…
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Koreatown
For kimchi and karaoke, it's hard to beat Koreatown (Little Korea). Mainly concentrated on 32nd St, with some spillover into the surrounding streets both south and north of this strip, it's a Seoul-ful jumble of Korean-owned restaurants, shops, salons and spas.
Authentic BBQ is available around the clock at many of the all-night spots on 32nd St, some with microphone, video screen and Manic Monday at the ready.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) offers a completely novel perspective on Cambridge academia: proudly nerdy, but not quite as tweedy as Harvard. A recent frenzy of building has resulted in some of the most architecturally intriguing structures you’ll find on either side of the river.
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Fenway Park
Boston’s most cherished landmark? Site of Boston’s greatest dramas and worst defeats? To many Bostonians, it’s not Bunker Hill or the Tea Party ship, but tiny old Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
Built in 1912, Fenway Park is one of the last survivors of the old-style baseball parks. Only Wrigley Field in Chicago rivals its legendary status.
Baseball at Fenway is special thanks to the unique shape of the park, the intimate playing field and famous leftfield wall. The Green Monster, the towering leftfield wall that compensates for the relatively short distance from home plate. It consistently alters the regular course of play – what appears to be a lazy fly…
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Dreams of Freedom
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Cabot Center
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Mills Gallery
Besides several performance spaces, the main venue for visual arts at the Boston Center for the Arts is the Mills Gallery, which hosts cutting-edge art exhibits, as well as opportunities to interact with the artists (eg artist and curator talks). Exhibits feature established and emerging artists from Boston and around the country, who put on shows appropriate to this trendsetting neighborhood.
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Tavern on the Green
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Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Museum of Television & Radio
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