Explore Destinations & Curated Experiences
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Discover the North Coast of Massachusetts on a private 6-hour tour of Salem, Marblehead, and Gloucester, three coastal towns central to America’s early history and maritime power. In Salem, explore the legacy of the 1692 Salem Witch Trials, immortalized by Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, along with landmarks such as the House of the Seven Gables, the Peabody Essex Museum (the oldest public museum in the United States), and Salem Maritime National Historic Site. Continue to Marblehead, a picturesque yachting community that sent hundreds of sailors and privateers to support George Washington during the American Revolution, and enjoy sweeping harbor views and excellent ocean-front dining. If time allows, visit Gloucester, America’s oldest fishing port, to experience its working harbor and seafaring heritage. This customizable private North Shore tour is tailored to your interests, blending history, culture, and coastal scenery at a relaxed pace.
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Experience Newport, Rhode Island on a private, customizable tour (1–7 hours) through one of America’s most glamorous seaside cities, famous for its Gilded Age mansions, maritime heritage, and coastal beauty. Walk in the world of the Vanderbilts and Astors as you explore legendary estates such as The Breakers, Marble House, and Rosecliff—made famous in The Great Gatsby—along with landscapes designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Highlights may include Ocean Drive, the scenic Cliff Walk, Eisenhower House, the International Tennis Hall of Fame, Fort Adams, the Touro Synagogue (the oldest in the U.S.), and Newport’s vibrant harborfront at Bowen’s and Bannister’s Wharf. This private Newport RI tour blends history, architecture, art, and sweeping ocean views, tailored entirely to your interests and pace.
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Explore literary New England through sites connected to writers such as Anne Hutchinson, Phyllis Wheatley, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Robert Frost, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, including The Old Manse and Walden Pond. Our customizable literary tours may also highlight homes and landscapes associated with Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Sylvia Plath, John Updike, Herman Melville, Isaac Asimov, Noam Chomsky, and others, tracing the region’s enduring influence on Transcendental, existential, and modern thought. As this is a private experience, we tailor each itinerary to your interests, focusing on depth rather than rushing to see everything.
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Do you think you may be a Mayflower descendant? Notable figures such as Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, and Sir. Winston Churchill traced their ancestry to early Pilgrim families, including John and Priscilla Alden. If your family lore mentions 17th-century New England towns, ships arriving in the New World, or old Massachusetts records preserved in a family Bible or on Ancestry, your roots may be surprisingly well documented. Early English settlers left extensive paper trails—arrival records, birth and marriage registers, land deeds, court files, and burial plots—and by 1680 much of New England’s best land was already claimed, prompting later arrivals to move west. We offer private, guided genealogy tours that take you to the towns, churches, seaports, historic homes, and colonial graveyards where your American story began, including access to local historical societies and resources like the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston; past tours have uncovered centuries-old family homes, extensive gravestone clusters, and even names on monuments such as Plymouth’s Forefathers Memorial.
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Explore the South Coast of Massachusetts on a private 6–7 hour Plymouth tour, available year-round, featuring the birthplace of New England. Stand beside Plymouth Rock, walk the decks of the Mayflower II, visit Plimoth Patuxet (Plimoth Plantation), Burial Hill, and historic Pilgrim homes such as Howland House and the Richard Sparrow House. Learn where the first Thanksgiving took place, see the Myles Standish Monument, and enjoy sweeping views of Cape Cod Bay, with seasonal opportunities to view cranberry bogs and cross the Cape Cod Canal. This customizable private Plymouth Massachusetts tour blends Pilgrim history, colonial life, Native American heritage, and coastal scenery, with flexible lunch options and optional genealogy-focused experiences.
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Explore Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard on a private day trip from Boston, featuring classic New England seaside towns, maritime history, and coastal scenery. A Cape Cod tour may include Sandwich, Hyannis, Falmouth, and Chatham, with highlights such as the Kennedy landmarks, historic villages, fishing harbors, lighthouses, beaches, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Alternatively, travel by ferry to Martha’s Vineyard, known for its charming island towns, Aquinnah Cliffs, lighthouses, film locations from Jaws, and scenic coastal views, with opportunities to explore Oak Bluffs, Edgartown, and historic Victorian “Painted Ladies.” This customizable private Cape Cod or Martha’s Vineyard tour is tailored to your interests, with seasonal planning to avoid peak bridge and ferry traffic.
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We can take you to quintessential New England sites for you to work on your camera skills, including ancient graveyards, 300-year-old homes, seashore and lighthouse scenes, ponds and lakes in autumn, covered bridges, old clapboard New England churches, boating harbors, grist mills with working water wheels, 200-year-old single-room schoolhouses, 300-year-old English Country Inns, cobble-stoned streets, brick sidewalks, working and antique gas lit street lamps. Additionally, the Berkshires Mountains of Massachusetts offer orchards and wineries with mountainous backdrops that make for beautiful photography.
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From the oldest wood-frame building in the United States built in 1636 to the newest local structures, we have buildings spanning 5 centuries to show you. We can take you for a tour of Gropius House, where Walter Gropius (founder of the Bauhaus School of Architecture) lived during the last 30 years of his life after fleeing Nazi Germany.
We also have buildings by Renzo Piano, Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei, LeCorbusier, Frank Gehry, and more. Architectural Tours can also be done in the many coastal regions of New England from the Captain’s Houses of Maine to the Mansions in Newport.
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Travel by high-speed ferry to Provincetown for a full-day coastal experience at the tip of Cape Cod. This guided visit blends maritime history, art culture, dune landscapes, and vibrant Commercial Street energy into a structured yet relaxed itinerary. Guests enjoy curated stops, local insight, and time to explore independently before returning to Boston by sea.
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Whether arriving in Boston by cruise ship or extending your New England voyage, Boston Private Tours offers customized shore excursions, private sightseeing, and seamless transportation. From historic Boston and Cambridge to Salem, Lexington & Concord, Newport, Cape Cod, and beyond, we create personalized experiences designed around your schedule, interests, and comfort.
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Explore Boston’s historic Chinatown through food, immigration history, and living tradition. This guided walking tour blends cultural insight with curated tastings from authentic local establishments. Guests gain a deeper understanding of the neighborhood’s evolution while experiencing the flavors that define it.
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Boston is home to some of the world's finest museums, libraries, and cultural institutions. Boston Private Tours can curate private experiences tailored to your interests, including visits to the Museum of Fine Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Harvard University museums and collections, the Boston Athenaeum, the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, and other distinguished cultural destinations throughout New England.
Whether your interests include art, history, architecture, literature, or academic collections, we create personalized itineraries that provide meaningful access and deeper understanding of the region's cultural treasures.