Here's a [nice tutorial from Nathan Yau's Flowing Data blog][1] using R and US state-level crime data. It shows:

 - Box-and-Whisker Plots (which you already use)
 - Histograms
 - Kernel Density Plots
 - Rug Plots
 - Violin Plots
 - Bean Plots (a weird combo of a box plot, density plot, with a rug in the middle).
 
Lately, I find myself plotting CDFs much more than histograms.

  [1]: http://flowingdata.com/2012/05/15/how-to-visualize-and-compare-distributions/