Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge (580 Mount Auburn Street; 617-547-7105; www.mountauburn.org).

America’s first horticultural cemetery and it’s so popular that they rent out audio headsets! Created in 1831 the landscape is laced with ponds and streams, filled with birds and they have two chapels filled with stained-glass windows.

Best of all visiting and touring are free and all the trees/shrubs from all over the world are labeled.