- Logan Airport is built almost entirely on top of a landfill project
- Established in 1634, Boston Common was the first public park in the U.S.
- With more than 100 colleges and universities, the population of the greater Boston area is approximately one-third students
- Dating from 1635, Boston Latin School is the oldest existing public school in the country
- The official car of the mayor of Boston always uses the license plate “576”, a tradition dating from the first mayor of Boston to have an automobile
- Mileage signs on the Boston Turnpike measure distance to the State House
- If you time it right, at the Boston University Bridge you can see the only place in the world where a boat can sail under a train driving under a car driving under an airplane
