This cemetery includes the remains of more than 900 people who served during the Civil War. The big sphinx statue, in fact, is a memorial to those who died in the war.

The larger Mount Auburn is one of the most influential cemeteries in the U.S. in terms of its design and the very fact of its then-rural roots.

This 10-mile path follows the first footsteps of the Revolution, and runs through Cambridge, Arlington, and Lexington, out to Bedford.

Pick it up near the Alewife T stop if you’re looking for public transit. Or, if you’re looking for a little exercise while in Cambridge, hop on pretty much anywhere.

The 16-acre park includes three cannon that George Washington’s troops seized after the British evacuated the Boston area in 1776.

There are other Revolutionary-related markers in the Common as well, including the tree beneath which Washington supposedly took command of the Continental Army.

This public park is not to be confused with the private watering hole nearby (though we highly recommend that, too).

Culinary pioneer Julia Child lived for decades in the house at 103 Irving Street, just east of Harvard (it’s a private home, so please don’t ring the doorbell).

She shopped for ingredients at Savenor’s nearby at 92 Kirkland Street and received the Legion of Honor from the French government at the Meridien Hotel at 20 Sidney Street, also in Cambridge.

The original Romanesque building dates from the late 1880s, and a massive modern expansion opened adjacent to it in 2009.

That addition was one of the first U.S. buildings to incorporate double-skin curtain walls—old meets new, and just down the street from Harvard’s main campus!

This park sports not only clear vestiges of the oldest surviving fortification from the Revolutionary War, but five life-size, painted-steel silhouettes, including of four Continental Army troops.