Fenway Neighborhood

Connecting Cambridge to Boston, the Harvard Bridge is actually famous from an MIT fraternity prank, in which a gentleman measured the length of the bridge by his body size. To this day, the bridge is measured in 'smoots.'

Ranked for several years as the best university in the world, and topping the ranking on 12 of 48 disciplines, MIT has emerged in its own right as a draw for Cambridge visitors.

Though Cambridge is an independent city from Boston, the two cities have grown synonymous with one another. Cambridge is home to two of the world's leading academic institutions.

Boston’s legendary ballpark has been home to the Red Sox since 1912, and is the oldest ballpark in the whole of the Major League Franchise.

Running east-west through the Fenway neighborhood, Boylston Street is one of the best places to see how gentrification has changed the face of the neighborhood.

Located next to Boston Common, the Public Garden was the first public botanical garden in the country.