Your in-depth guide to the very best of Boston. Make the most of your trip to this beautiful destination with our DK Eyewitness Travel Guide.

Packed with insider tips to make your trip a success, you'll find a guide to Boston's stunning architecture and its scenic drives that let you experience the best hotels, bars, and shops that the city has to offer. Try local delicacies at fantastic restaurants, bars, and clubs, and enjoy the great views in spots that will take your breath away. We have the best hotels for every budget, plus fun activities for the solitary traveler or for families and children visiting Boston.

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With hundreds of full-color photographs, hand-drawn illustrations, and custom maps that illuminate every page, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Boston truly shows you these places as no one else can.

Recommended: For a pocket guidebook to Boston, check out DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Boston, which is packed with dozens of top 10 lists, ensuring you make the most of your time and experience the best of everything.

Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.

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Written by locals, Fodor’s Boston is the perfect guidebook for those looking for insider tips to make the most out their visit. Complete with detailed maps and concise descriptions, this Boston travel guide will help you plan your trip with ease.

There's history and culture around every bend in Boston―skyscrapers nestle next to historic hotels while modern marketplaces line the antique cobblestone streets. The city that blends yesterday and today has much to offer, and with this updated Fodor's Gold Guide first-time visitors, as well as returning visitors, will discover all of Beantown's old and new charms.

Fodor’s Boston includes:

•UPDATED COVERAGE: Fodor's writers have scoured the city to find the best new hotels, restaurants, bars, shops, and sights.

•ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE: A visually stunning color photo guide covers the essential sights and unmissable attractions throughout Boston.

•FREE PULLOUT MAP AND DETAILED MAPS: A handy PULLOUT map will help you navigate on the go. Full-color and full-size street maps throughout will help you plan efficiently and get around confidently.

•ILLUSTRATED FEATURES: Gorgeous full-color features on Boston's Freedom Trail and New England's whales and whaling history. Illustrated cultural spotlights on Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts bring these wonderful institutions to life.

•ITINERARIES AND TOP RECOMMENDATIONS: Sample itineraries will help you plan and customize your own itinerary so you can make the most of your time. Includes tips on where to eat, stay, and shop as well as information about nightlife, sports and the outdoors. “Fodor’s Choice” designates our best picks in every category.

•INDISPENSABLE TRIP PLANNING TOOLS: Top Attractions, Great Itineraries, and Family Favorites features make it easy to plan a vacation. Lists of Freedom Trail sights in each neighborhood; easy-to-read color regional maps; and tips for traveling with kids and frugal fun provide useful at-a-glance travel resources.

•COVERS: Faneuil Hall, Fenway Park, Isabella Stewart Museum, Sam Adams Brewery, the Freedom Trail, the Back Bay, Boston Public Library, and much more.

ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years.

Planning on visiting other destinations on the East Coast? Check out Fodor’s Washington, D.C. and Fodor’s New York City.

New England is a classic American destination: the rocky Maine coast, Vermont's Green Mountains, Connecticut's antiques, Rhode Island's mansions, Boston's vibrant history, and New Hampshire's Lake District are all made for exploring. This full-color guide will help travelers plan the perfect trip, from leaf peeping and skiing to antiquing and fine dining.

•UP-TO-DATE COVERAGE: Full updated, including fresh reviews on restaurants and hotels in New England’s top cities―Boston, New Haven, Providence, Burlington, and Portland.

•ULTIMATE EXPERIENCES GUIDE: A spectacular color photo guide captures the ultimate unmissable experiences and attractions throughout New England to inspire you.

•DETAILED MAPS: Full-color and full-size street maps throughout will help you plan efficiently and get around confidently.

•GORGEOUS PHOTOS AND ILLUSTRATED FEATURES: Includes gorgeous full-color features on skiing, Boston's Freedom Trail, Newport's grand mansions, Maine's impressive lighthouses, hiking the Appalachian Trail, and where to find the best crafts and antiques.

•ITINERARIES AND TOP RECOMMENDATIONS: Sample itineraries will help you plan and customize your own itinerary so you can make the most of your time. Includes tips on where to eat, stay, and shop as well as information about nightlife, sports and the outdoors. “Fodor’s Choice” designates our best picks in every category.

•INDISPENSABLE TRIP PLANNING TOOLS: Convenient overviews show each state and its highlights, and detail-rich chapter planning sections have on-target advice and tips for planning your time and for getting around the region by car, bus, and train. This edition also features more information on how to enjoy New England with kids and round-ups of the most picturesque towns, best architectural sights, museums, and shopping.

•COVERS: Massachusetts, Boston, Cape Cod, Provincetown, Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard, the Berkshires, Connecticut, New Haven, Mystic, Rhode Island, Providence, Newport, Vermont, Burlington, New Hampshire, Portsmouth, White Mountains, Maine, Acadia National Park, Portland, and more.

ABOUT FODOR'S AUTHORS: Each Fodor's Travel Guide is researched and written by local experts. Fodor’s has been offering expert advice for all tastes and budgets for over 80 years.

Planning on visiting more of the East Coast? Check out Fodor’s Boston, Fodor’s Washington D.C., and Fodor’s New York City.

Newly revised, updated, and redesigned for 2016.

True to its name, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Boston covers all the city's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use "top 10" lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you.

This newly updated pocket travel guide for Boston will lead you straight to the best attractions the city has to offer, from Boston Common to Fenway Park to the historic Harvard University.

Expert travel writers have fully revised this edition of DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Boston.

You'll still find DK's famous full-color photography and museum floor plans, along with just the right amount of coverage of the city's history and culture. A free pull-out city map is marked with sights from the guidebook and includes a street index and a metro map.

The perfect pocket-size travel companion: DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Boston.

Series Overview: For more than two decades, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides have helped travelers experience the world through the history, art, architecture, and culture of their destinations. Expert travel writers and researchers provide independent editorial advice, recommendations, and reviews. With guidebooks to hundreds of places around the globe available in print and digital formats, DK Eyewitness Travel Guides show travelers how they can discover more.

DK Eyewitness Travel Guides: the most maps, photographs, and illustrations of any guide.

One of the oldest cities in the United States and home to some of the most renowned universities in the world, Boston will captivate visitors with its mix of historical sites from colonial days and modern high-rises. National Geographic's City Destination map of Boston is the perfect travel companion for business and leisure travelers alike, combining a unique and easy-to-read road map with an essential travel guide. Pinpointed on the map are hundreds of popular and lesser know points of interest, including monuments, notable buildings, churches, hotels, theaters, subway (The "T") and railway stations, parks, police stations and hospitals, including 3D depictions of many popular sites, like the Museum of Fine Arts, Faneuil Hall and Fenway Park. For visitors interested in walking tours, the historic Freedom, Black Heritage and Maritime trails are mapped.

Finding your destination will be simplified by the map's user friendly index of streets, notable buildings, theaters, hotels, parks, subway stations, ferry stops and other points of interest. A regional map, a comprehensive subway (The "T") map, a diagram of Logan Airport and transit information will aid in your acclimation. Background information about the city and its most popular sites is also provided.

Every Destination Map is printed on durable synthetic paper, making them waterproof, tear-resistant and tough — capable of withstanding the rigors of any kind of travel.

Explore the culture, history, wildlife, and architecture of New England with walks and hikes through dramatic landscapes, scenic routes, and guidance on the region's fresh coastal cuisine. DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England provides all the insider tips you need, whether you are sailing in infamous Newport, exploring museums of the American Revolution, or hiking across the spectacular Appalachian Mountains. The guide includes 3-D cutaway illustrations and floor plans of all the must-see sights, street-by-street maps of major cities and towns, and reliable information about getting around this incredible region.

With hundreds of photographs, illustrations, and maps, DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: New England shows you what others only tell you.

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• Maps and Driving Tools: 70 easy-to-use maps keep you oriented on and off the highway, along with site-to-site mileage, driving times, and detailed directions for the entire route
• Eat, Sleep, Stop and Explore: You'll know exactly what you want to do at each stop with lists of the best hikes, views, and more. Sample farm-fresh cuisine in the Berkshires, or hit up the famous Tanglewood music festival in the summer. Dive into Boston's revolutionary history, or cruise down bucolic lanes of Woodstock. Take to the sea off the coast of Maine to spot humpback whales and puffin colonies, or lounge on the beach and snag a buttery lobster roll
• Itineraries for Every Traveler: Drive the entire two-week route or follow strategic routes like "A Tour of the Fall Foliage," as well as suggestions for spending time in Boston, New York City, Coastal Maine, The Berkshires, Southern Vermont, New Hampshire's White Mountains, Newport, Cape Cod, and Acadia National Park
• Local Expert: Local New Englander and road warrior Jen Rose Smith shares the highway secrets of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, and Rhode Island
• Planning Your Trip: Know when and where to get gas, how to avoid traffic, tips for driving in different road and weather conditions, and suggestions for LGBTQ travelers, seniors, and road trippers with kids