SIX18 TRAVEL

This college town, home to two of the most famous universities in the country, if not the world (Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology), is certainly known for its highbrow intellectual pursuits. But it also has its fair share of world-class museums, a thriving music and arts scene, all sorts of boutiques, fantastic restaurants and independent bars and cafes. Even though it's a hop, skip and a jump from Boston, just across the Charles River, it's a destination in its own right, with its own character and charms.

In the morning, you could be browsing through bookstores in Harvard Square with leagues of students, in the afternoon, enjoying cutting-edge architecture on the campus of MIT and in the evening, savoring virtually any kind of cuisine you could imagine, and you'd barely scratch the surface of all there is to do in this historic, yet youthfully vibrant city.