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ArtsBoston/Boston Tix. Org: Discount tickets for theatre, music and dance: A non-profit service provided by greater boston arts organizations.

Boston African American National Historic Site is comprised of the largest area of pre-Civil War black owned structures in the U.S. It has roughly two dozen sites on the north face of Beacon Hill. These historic buildings were homes, businesses, schools, and churches of a thriving black community that, in the face of great opposition, fought the forces of slavery and inequality.

The Boston Harbor Islands: 34 islands in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, many of which offer hiking trails, tidal pools, and camping sites and are easily accessible by T and by ferry. Tour the Civil War–era Fort Warren, on Georges Island, or visit the country’s oldest continually used lighthouse, on Little Brewster Island. Ferries leave from Long Wharf in Boston and the EDIC Pier in South Boston, both reachable by T; ferries cost $10 and $12 (round-trip), depending on the day of travel.

Boston Symphony Orchestra has two great options for students. The College Card is available for only $25 and gives you the opportunity to attend up to 16 BSO performances during the subscription season at no additional cost. Beginning at 9:30am on the morning of each concert listed, students may call the designated phone line to confirm that tickets are available for that performance. The tickets can then be picked up between the hours of 10am and 6pm the same day at the BSO Box Office at Symphony Hall on Massachusetts Avenue. A limited number of Rush Tickets are available for Boston Symphony concerts during the 2007-08 season. Rush Tickets cost $9, are limited to one per customer, and must be paid for with cash only, in person. Rush tickets are available in the Main Box Office at the Massachusetts Avenue entrance. Call the BSO for more details.

The Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail that leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an authentic American treasure. Preserved and dedicated by the citizens of Boston in 1958, when the wrecking ball threatened, the Freedom Trail today is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.

Museum of African American History: is dedicated to preserving, conserving and accurately interpreting the contributions of African Americans in New England from the colonial period through the 19th century.

Museum of Science. Each September, the museum offers a "College Night" for students, which includes free admission for a night of complimentary exhibits, laser shows, live programs, and more. This year, while touring the main Exhibit Halls, students can explore the Butterfly Garden, featuring hundreds of free-flying butterflies; catch a live presentation at the Gordon Current Science and Technology Center; and meet residents of the Museum's Live Animal Center. Students can rock out to dazzling laser shows set to popular music at the Charles Hayden Planetarium, while the 3-D Digital Cinema transports them to outer space where they can view amazing 3-D images of the Sun or underwater for an adventure with Sharks.

New England Aquarium including College Internship Program: Located on the Boston waterfront, the New England Aquarium is one of the leading aquariums in the U.S. Visitors can experience the world of water by seeing the Aquarium’s more than 50 exhibits and thousands of marine animals in their habitats, going on a whale watch or viewing a film in the Simons IMAX Theatre. The Aquarium is also a pioneer in marine animal rescue, and a leading ocean conservation organization with research scientists working on projects around the globe. The Aquarium Lecture Series brings specialists to the Aquarium to give free talks.

The Peabody Essex Museum is America’s oldest continuously operating museum. It was founded in 1799, sixteen years after the establishment of the nation and nearly three-quarters of a century before the founding of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The museum’s founders were among America's first global entrepreneurs, traveling the world in search of trade. The collections they amassed are exceptional for their provenance, age, quality, and significance.

Salem Witch Museum brings you there, back to Salem 1692. Visitors are given a dramatic history lesson using stage sets with life-size figures, lighting and a narration - an overview of the Witch Trials of 1692.

Singing Beach, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts— named for the “singing” noise the sand makes beneath your feet — is arguably the best beach in the state: There is a walk-on entrance fee of $5, which is well worth it. To get there, take the Rockport-bound commuter rail (tickets are $6.75, one way) from North Station and get off at the Manchester stop. Singing Beach is about a half-mile walk from the station.

Walden Pond State Reservation: "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." --Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). Two MBTA commuter rail stops in Concord on the Fitchberg line. One stops in Concord, the other in West Concord. The one in Concord is closest to the tourist attractions--about a mile's walk to the downtown/Milldam area and about the same distance to Walden Pond.