One of Boston's less-traveled neighborhoods, the West End features primarily recent construction—the brick tenements housing myriad ethnic groups and tangled web of streets of the old West End were razed in 1960s in the name of urban renewal. A few structures survived, namely Massachusetts General Hospital and the former Suffolk County Jail, which is today known as the luxurious Liberty Hotel. If you've attended a Celtics or Bruins game at the TD Garden, you've been in this 'hood and probably not realized it. In 2019, the Garden underwent a face lift and the addition of The Hub on Causeway, nearly three acres of mixed-use space that puts a bounce back in the West End's step.
Where the Charles River separates the West End in Boston from the city of Cambridge, the Museum of Science puts a cool spin on technology, earth sciences, and more. And, on the skyline one can spy the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge, a majestic and modern piece of transportation architecture.
