7. Beacon Hill - http://www.beaconhillonline.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi 
Yet more streets to walk in a Boston neighborhood…this time, however, you might be huffing and puffing a bit as these streets run up, down, and around a hill in the center of the city. Here things, except for the intrusion of the gold-domed "new" State House at the top of the hill, are much as they were when Charles Bulfinch was plying his trade as one of early America's great architects. This is another Boston neighborhood where it is worth spending a few hours of your stay just walking around. You'll even see some streets paved with cobblestones. If you are interested in history, the Black Heritage Trail courses through Beacon Hill as it highlights the sights of one of this country's first free African American neighborhoods. Charles Street, at the foot of the hill is lined with antique stores, coffee shops, restaurants, and even a neighborhood bar. The only thing to avoid is the "Cheers" bar where no one knows your name because every one is a tourist from somewhere else.

8. Freedom Trail - http://www.thefreedomtrail.org/   If you have seen the sights along the Freedom Trail once you may not care to see them again. The value in repeat walks along this trail comes in reliving how a modern city grows out of an almost medieval small colonial town. Along this trail you will see more tourists than almost anywhere else in Boston, but you will also see more Bostonians because this colonial trail runs through the heart of the city's financial district where most of its work is done. You will see graveyards and churches once used by reluctant Englishmen and women now in the midst of an Italian neighborhood, which before that was an Irish neighborhood out of which sprang the Kennedy family, and before that was an African American neighborhood. You will see a tiny wooden ship, once the scourge of the mighty Royal Navy, on a harbor filled with massive cruise ships and LNG tankers, bordered by an international jetport and soaring highway bridges. You will see a former outpost of the British Empire, still sporting a golden lion and unicorn. Now office towers dwarf it on every side and a busy subway station fills its basement, yet, somehow, the dignity of the colonial seat of government remains. In the middle of a busy intersection you'll stand on the place where street kids, including a brave African American, defied regulars of the Royal Army. You can think about how the British soldiers, far from home, who shot many of those kids were defended at trial by a brave lawyer who was a leader in the American Revolution and went on to become President of the United States. The Freedom Trail is not so much the plaques and tiny old buildings that pop up here and there along the red brick stripe as it is a living breathing time line.

Ghosts and Gravestones of Boston
Marriott Long Wharf
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
United States
Tel: 800-213-2474
URL: http://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston.htm
Step aboard the trolley of the doomed...and join your host, a 17th Century grave digger, cursed with a sentence of eternal damnation. Hear about Boston's most sinister characters, from the Angel of Death to the king of all killers, the Boston Strangler. Learn about all the haunts that call the "Hub" their home.