Weekend fun for a teen?

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

My aunt and uncle are sending my very misbehaved teenage cousin to visit me this weekend in hopes that I can show him a good, idependent-feeling time in the city without his usual exposure to the delightful.. things.. found in the wealthy suburbs. I'm 25 but I don't go out much. Any recommendations on what might be fun for a 16 year-old? He's into all kinds of music but I am only familiar with the bar music scene of Boston.

Davis recommendations are ideal but we'll be going into the city a few times too.

And while music is definitely the focus, I'll take other recommendations as well! I was one of those quiet teenagers who sat at home drawing, so I have no idea what the extroverted ones like.

Thanks in advance!

Comments

[ron_newman]

New England Pirate Museum. Never been there, so I can't say anything useful about it. It's across from Pickering Wharf, which is part of a National Historic Park and can be fun to walk around.

[elements.livejournal.com]

I've never gone inside but it always seemed to me the Pirate Museum was a bit tourist trappy. The witch museum on the other hard impressed both my parents, who are hard to please as museums go, but still has a high cool factor. Really though if I were bringing a teen to Salem I'd go to the Salem visitors' center (right across from the Peabody Essex museum) and let them pick.

I think though that for this kid I'd stay in Boston/Cambridge/Somerville. Salem isn't inaccessible from rich suburbs and doesn't have the same 'I went to the big city with my older cousin' factor.

[ron_newman]

I assumed that the kid is from a suburb of some other city than Boston, but I could be quite wrong about that.

[elements.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, if that's the case then if there's time for the trip up and back Salem could definitely be a fun option.

[sly-salkie.livejournal.com]

New Hampshire but 2nd child in a family of 10, so I don't think he's had much of a Boston tour yet, or Salem for that matter.