Self-Guided Tours in Boston

A 2.5-mile red-brick walk through the birthplace of the American Revolution

Ten real Boston-area locations behind the city's action thrillers and comedies, from Denzel Washington's Equalizer to Kevin James's underdog comedy

Real Boston-area streets, bars, and landmarks behind the city's best-known crime films

Eight real Boston and Dedham locations tied to the city's true-crime and courtroom dramas, from the Boston Strangler case to Sacco and Vanzetti's Dedham trial

Row houses, schools, and safehouses of Boston's 19th-century free Black community

A walk past Newbury Street, Copley Square, and Theatre District spots that have doubled for the movies

Landfill turned into Boston's grandest 19th-century architecture

A downtown walk past the surgery, subway, and switchboard that started American firsts

From replica tea ships to the wharves that built colonial Boston's fortune

Six stops tracing Boston's sound, from Symphony Hall's storied acoustics to the sweaty club stages that launched Aerosmith

A crawl through six generations of Boston seafood, from the nation's oldest restaurant to a market built for the next one

A drive past the real buildings that played fictional law firms, hospitals, and city hall on television

From baseball's oldest ballpark through Olmsted's greenway to two of Boston's great art museums

A downtown Boston walk from the old hanging ground to a hotel that never checked out its ghosts

A moonlit walk through downtown Boston's colonial ghost stories and burying grounds

Six historic beds across Massachusetts where guests say the old stories never checked out

Six breweries across Boston and beyond, from the pilot brewery that named the city's best-known beer to a democratically run brewpub downtown

Boston to Lexington and Concord and back — the road to war, mile by mile

A walk from Boston Common to the harbor, linking the city's newest civil-rights sculpture to murals, gates, and public art hiding in plain sight

Colonial landmarks and generations of immigrant life packed into a few blocks

A drive through the ballparks, arenas, and streets where Boston built its championship legacy

A driving loop past the city's strangest, sweetest, and most surprising landmarks

From a dormitory with a dark reputation to a surgical dome that remembers its patients

A hands-on trade college a few blocks from the South End's own Franklin namesake

A ferry-hopping loop through fortified islands, a former dump turned park, and a 1716 lighthouse

A walk past BU's converted ballpark, riverside bridge, mansion-turned-events-house, domed chapel, and laser-research tower

An adult-learning college on Charlestown's Rutherford Avenue corridor

A short walk around baseball's oldest ballpark, tracing five real spots that have turned up in Boston's biggest sports and comedy films

A ferry-and-shoreline circuit through Boston Harbor's cursed rocks, forgotten forts, and quarantined shores

The country's oldest optometry school, tucked into the edge of Back Bay

From the Cabot athletics complex to Snell Library, the bronze husky, and the quad built for the school's centennial

A city college built along Roxbury Crossing's Columbus Avenue corridor

From a reclaimed harbor dump to a working waterfront campus

A commuter college at the crossing of Downtown Boston and the Common

Four stops across Berklee's Back Bay and Fenway footprint, from its flagship concert hall to the Massachusetts Avenue corner where it all began.

Four stops along Newbury Street, where the design school teaches architecture in a neighborhood built to demonstrate it.

A quiet Hyde Park campus bordered by a tidal river and a wooded city reservation

Four stops linking Emerson's Boston Common-facing campus to the historic theaters it owns and operates in the Theater District.

From Emmanuel's 1919 administration building and chapel to the Yawkey Center and the neighboring Victory Garden

Four stops from a Back Bay brownstone campus to the Public Garden and Commonwealth Avenue Mall it borders.

A graduate health-sciences campus built inside a working naval shipyard

A short loop through MassArt's Fenway campus, from the Tower Building to its public student galleries

A compact walk through MCPHS's Longwood Avenue campus, from its main building to the bridge that shares its address

Four stops through America's oldest independent music school, ending across the street at the concert hall it helped inspire.

Four stops from the law school's Stuart Street building through the Theater District to the edge of Boston Common.

A wooded Brighton hilltop that has formed Boston's priests since 1884

A high-rise campus wedged between the State House and the Charles River

From Simmons' original college building and quad to its public art gallery and the neighboring Victory Garden

Four stops from a converted Downtown Crossing theater up to Suffolk's Beacon Hill law school buildings.

A quick loop past Wentworth's founding hall, central quad, and the labs and auditorium built around it