bookstores:

• ✩ manchester by the book (union st, manchester)
• ✩ pandemonium books & games (central sq)
• ✩ used book superstore (middleton)
• andover bookstore (andover)
• back pages books (waltham)
• barbara's bookstore (south station, boston)
• belmont books (belmont)
• book ends (main st, winchester)
• boston book company (jamaica plain)
• boston college bookstore (newton/chestnut hill)
• brattle bookshop (west st, boston)
• brookline brooksmith (brookline)
• byrn mawr bookstore (huron village/cambridge)
• comicazi (somerville)
• comicopia (fenway/kenmore)
• commonwealth books (downtown crossing)
• concord bookshop (main st, concord)
• frugal bookstore (warren st, boston)
• grolier poetry bookshop (harvard sq)
• harvard bookstore (harvard sq/cambridge)
• hub comics (union sq/somerville)
• i am books (north end/boston)
• lucy parson's center (centre st, jamaica plain)
• mit coop (central sq)
• more than words (boston/waltham)
• new england mobile bookfair (newton highlands)
• newbury comics (harvard sq/newbury st)
• newtonville books (newtonville)
• ocean village bookstore (ocean st, marshfield)
• paperback junction (washington st, s.easton)
• papercuts jp (jamaica plain)
• parnassus bookservice (yarmouth port)
• porter square books (porter sq/cambridge)
• raven's used books (newbury st/harvard sq)
• rodney's bookstore (central sq)
• schoenhof's foreign books (harvard sq)
• seven stars (central sq)
• shire bookshop (union st, franklin)
• spirit of 76 bookstore (pleasant st, marblehead)
• the book oasis (stoneham)
• the book rack (arlington)
• the coop (cambridge)
• the curious george store (harvard sq)
• tres gatos (jamaica plain)
• trident booksellers (newbury st)
• used book superstore (burlington)
• wellesley books (central st, wellesley)

museums:

• african meeting house (boston)
• arnold arboretum (jamaica plain)
• basketball hall of fame (springfield)
• blue hills trailside museum (milton)
• boston children's museum (waterfront-boston)
• boston tea party museum (boston)
• concord museum (concord)
• fuller art museum (brockton)
• griffin museum of photography (winchester)
• harvard art museums (cambridge)
• harvard museum of natural history (cambridge)
• institute of contemporary art (waterfront-boston)
• isabella stewart gardner museum (boston)
• jfk historical house (brookline)
• jfk presidential library/museum (boston)
• larz anderson auto museum (brookline)
• metropolitan waterworks museum (chestnut hill)
• mit museum (kendall square)
• museum of african american history (boston)
• museum of fine arts (boston)
• museum of science (boston)
• old north church (boston)
• peabody essex museum (salem)
• the sports museum (boston)
• uss constitution museum (charlestown)

miscellaneous places/events:

• a4cade (mit, kendall sq)
• aquarium
• blue hills (re)
• boston ballet
• boston common
• boston harbor islands
• boston mapparium
• boston marathon
• boston pops
• boston public garden
• boston public library
• boston symphony orchestra
• boston university observatory (re)
• bunker hill monument
• cambridgeside galleria shopping center
• castle island (re)
• charles river canoeing/kayaking
• duck tour
• fanueil hall marketplace
• fenway park - redsox game
• ferry ride across the harbor
• first night boston (new years)
• franklin park zoo
• freedom trail & quincy market
• george's island
• gilette stadium - patriots game
• harborwalk
• hatch shell outdoor concert
• improv boston
• massachusetts state house tour
• new england holocaust memorial
• paul revere house
• ✔ plymouth planation/plymouth rock (re)
• prospect park (waltham)
• salisbury beach & boardwalk
• secret bodega/hidden shoestore (6 clearway st)
• skywalk observatory @ prudential center
• somerville flea market (sundays:10am-4pm)
• south-end open market @ black ink
• southwick zoo
• swan boat ride (boston public garden)
• t.d. garden - celtics game (north station)
• thrift stores:
  • savers (natick)
  • urban renewals (allston)
• walden pond

restaurants:

• addis red sea (ethiopian; tremont st)
• bukowski's tavern (bar; boston)
• cheers (american; beacon hill/faneuil hall)
• coconut cafe (thai; newton centre)
• grendel's den (bar)
• himalayan bistro (indian/nepali; centre st)
• karibu (african; moody st)
• lady m. (confections; newbury st)
• liquid art house (gallery+global cuisine; arlington st)
• little big diner (newton)
• little india (indian; moody st)
• luke's lobsters (seafood; copley sq)
• noodle st. (thai; commonwealth ave)
• parish cafe (back bay; named for marquez)
• penang (malaysian; chinatown)
• sugar & spice (thai; porter sq)
• tatte bakery & cafe (boston)
• thai basil (thai; newbury st)
• the beehive (outdoor; south end-tremont st)
• the elephant walk (cambodian/french; beacon st)
• the littlest bar (american; broad st)
• top of the hub (american; boylston st)
• tres gatos (bar+books/records; jamaica plain)
• wok 'n roll (chinese; porter sq)
• ye olde union oyster house (seafood; union st)

venues:

• great scott (allston)
• house of blues (boston)
• orpheum theatre
• palladium (worcester)
• paradise (cambridge)
• the middle east (cambridge)
• the royale (boston)
• the sinclair (cambridge)
• wilbur theatre

squares/places:

• allston
• back bay
• brighton
• brookline village
• burlington
• central square
• chinatown
• copley square
• downtown & financial district
• east boston/"eastie"
• harvard square
• jamaica plain
• kendall/MIT
• newbury street
• newton centre
• north end
• porter square
• salem
• seaport district
• somerville
• south end

literary sites:

• cambridge author homes:
  • david foster wallace (somerville)
  • e.e. cummings (104 irvings st)
  • henry james (20 quincy st)
  • ✔ robert frost (35 brewster place)
  • t.s. eliot (14 ash st)
  • vladimir nabokov (8 craigie circle)
• emily dickinson homestead (amherst college)
• kerouac park (lowell) (october)
• moby dick museum (arrowhead) (labor day-october)
• sleepy hollow cemetery, concord - emerson, thoreau, hawthorne
• walden pond