• Experience The Old Manse just steps from the North Bridge. Part of Minute Man National Historic Park, the manse was home to Ralph Waldo Emerson’s grandfather.

• Visit the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, the poet, essayist, and philosopher. He was a founder of the Transcendentalist movement, believing nature to be a source of spiritual inspiration. The house itself dates back over 200 years.

• See the home of Lexington’s first two ministers and the place John Hancock and Samuel Adams stayed on April 18, 1775, when Paul Revere stopped by to warn them that British troops had left Boston.