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A 1.5-mile sand spit connecting the Nahant peninsula to the Massachusetts mainland near Little Nahant, one of the few well-preserved natural tombolos on the East Coast. Nahant grew from a colonial-era grazing area into one of the earliest resort towns in the region, with regular steamboat service from Boston beginning in 1817.

Part of the same natural sand tombolo, shared with Long Beach, that connects the city of Lynn to the Nahant peninsula on Massachusetts' North Shore. The reservation here was established around 1900 to protect the shoreline after the area's transformation from colonial grazing land into a 19th-century resort destination.

Installed on Boston Common for the city's 300th anniversary in 1930, this bronze relief depicts hermit William Blaxton greeting Governor John Winthrop and the Puritan settlers who in 1634 purchased the land that became America's oldest public park.

A lighthouse on Long Island in Boston Harbor, first lit in 1819 and rebuilt in 1844 as the first cast-iron lighthouse in the United States. It stands near the former site of Fort Dawes, a World War II-era harbor defense and observation post that was later demolished for a water treatment plant.

A South Boston beach named for the winner of a city swim-club contest, once home to a 1925 bathhouse serving the neighborhood for decades. After water-quality problems forced its closure in the 1990s, a major cleanup restored the beach, and it was also the site of a significant 1975 civil rights gathering for equal access to Boston's public beaches.

Dedicated in 1887 at the junction of Massachusetts Avenue and Broadway, this 42-foot granite column honors 33 Arlington soldiers who died defending the Union, its panels inscribed with the Gettysburg Address and the phrase "Manassas to Appomattox."