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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 and originally opened in Copley Square in 1876, before outgrowing that space and relocating to its current Huntington Avenue building in 1909 — a neoclassical structure designed by architect Guy Lowell, fronted by a 500-foot granite facade and organized around a grand central rotunda. The collection itself is enormous: more than 450,000 works of art in total, including 8,161 paintings, enough to rank the MFA among the 20th-largest art museums in the world by public gallery area. One holding in particular sets it apart internationally — the museum houses the largest collection of Japanese art outside Japan itself, roughly 100,000 items spanning 4,000 paintings and over 30,000 ukiyo-e prints. That scale draws real crowds: the MFA attracts more than 1.2 million visitors a year, a number that reflects both the depth of the permanent collection and a steady rotation of major traveling exhibitions. The museum also maintains an academic tie to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, keeping it connected to working artists and students rather than functioning purely as a static collection. For a Boston attractions list, the MFA is the essential "a full day, easily" entry — a 150-year-old, 450,000-object collection anchored by the largest Japanese art holdings outside Japan, housed in a Huntington Avenue building it's called home since 1909.
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Fenway Park
Fenway Park opened on April 20, 1912, with the Red Sox beating the New York Highlanders 7–6 in 11 innings in the ballpark's very first game. More than a century later it's still in everyday use, making it the oldest active ballpark in Major League Baseball and the last surviving stadium from the short-lived Federal League era still hosting regular games. The park has been rebuilt around its original bones more than once — a substantial reconstruction in 1934 and a wave of renovations beginning in the early 2000s that, by some estimates, extended its usable life out to around 2062. Current seating capacity runs to roughly 37,305 for day games and 37,755 at night, modest by modern ballpark standards but part of what gives Fenway its famously tight, close-to-the-field feel, including the Green Monster looming over left field. On March 7, 2012, its centennial year, Fenway was added to the National Register of Historic Places, formal recognition for a ballpark that had already been functioning as a de facto historic landmark for decades before the designation made it official. Watching a game there is as much about sitting inside a piece of early-20th-century stadium architecture as it is about the baseball itself. For a Boston attractions list, Fenway Park is the essential "history you can still buy a ticket to" entry — a working, National Register-listed ballpark that's hosted Red Sox games continuously since 1912, longer than any other stadium currently in the majors.
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