Boston Attractions & City Passes
How a city attraction pass works
A city attraction pass bundles admission to several of a city's top sights into one ticket you buy once. The big passes — CityPASS, Go City and The Sightseeing Pass — each cover a different set of attractions and price differently, and what they include changes over time. That is why this page never prints a price or a fixed bundle: we show you the cited attractions and link you to the provider for live pricing, so you compare against the sights you actually want to see.
Photo: National Park Service / Wikimedia Commons (public domain)Boston is a historic city in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton metro area, home to approximately 5 million residents, and offers visitors a rich variety of cultural and historical attractions. The city is known for world-class art museums, significant historic sites tied to American independence and colonial history, bustling public markets, and professional sports stadiums. Beyond the city itself, the region provides access to eight nearby National Park Service sites, making it an ideal destination for those interested in American history and culture.
Many visitors to Boston choose to explore multiple attractions during their stay. City passes can bundle several popular sites into a single ticket, streamlining admission and allowing visitors to visit museums, historic locations, and other venues without purchasing individual tickets for each stop. For current information about which attractions are included in available passes and their pricing, interested travelers can visit the pass provider's website through the link on this page.
| Attraction | Type |
|---|---|
| Freedom Trail | Historic site |
| Faneuil Hall Marketplace | Market |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Art museum |
| Fenway Park | Stadium |
| New England Aquarium | Aquarium |
| Museum of Science | Science center |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum | Art museum |
| Boston Common | Park |
| USS Constitution Museum | Museum |
| NPS unit | Annual visits |
|---|---|
| Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site · 3.5 mi | 51,495 (2025) |
| Salem Maritime National Historic Site · 6.9 mi | 569,839 (2025) |
| Longfellow House -Washington'S Headquarters National Historic Site · 11.1 mi | 54,912 (2025) |
| Boston African American National Historic Site · 11.2 mi | 365,864 (2025) |
| Boston National Historical Park · 11.3 mi | 2,383,812 (2025) |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site · 12.9 mi | 9,664 (2025) |
| Fredrick Law Olmsted National Historic Site · 14.4 mi | 7,240 (2025) |
| Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area · 14.8 mi | 4,276 (2025) |
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Attraction names and types are cited to Boston's tourism record; metro-area population is from the U.S. Census metro spine and nearby-NPS visitation from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics package, verified June 2026. How we compile this. We never quote a pass price.