The house was built in 1807 by Judge Silas Lee, when Wiscasset was one of the busiest ports east of Boston. Captain Tucker bought the property and it stayed in the family until being turned over to Historic New England and operated as a house museum.

Caumsett State Historic Park Preserve is situation on a scenic peninsula extending out into the Long Island Sound and offers miles of nature trails.

Gadsby’s Tavern Museum consists of two buildings, a tavern built in 1785, and the City Tavern & Hotel built in 1792. This establishment was the center of Alexandria’s social, political and commercial life.

The Long Island Museum of Art, History and Carriages contains the Dorothy & Ward Melville Carriage Museum displaying almost 200 vehicles in eight galleries.

Longwood Gardens consists of 1,077 acres of dazzling displays of great horticultural designs ranging from formal to natural in gardens, greenhouses, meadows, and woodlands in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.

Mount Vernon is an American landmark and once a vibrant 18th century plantation and home to the first President of the United States. The estate is located on the banks on the Potomac River.

The Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum was the first library solely dedicated to a President of the United States, and is located on the grounds of the family estate, Springwood. Located a short distance from Springwood was Val-Kil. Eleanor Roosevelt considered Val-Kil to be her first real home.

Coney Island is the name of both a neighborhood and a landmark amusement park. Between 1880 and World War II, Coney Island was the largest amusement park in the United States. Switchback Railway, a gravity coaster was built in 1884.

The Cloister’s museum buildings were constructed by merging various medieval styles and portions of buildings, and the overall design was the work of Charles Colleens. The museum was opened in 1938, and the park and museum were donated by oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller.

In 1926, John Hays Hammond, Jr., retained the architectural firm of Allen & Colleens to create his castle which was completed in 1929 on a cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Hammond was a scientist, inventor and a pioneer in the study of remote control and held the largest number of patents, only second to Thomas Edison.

Wethersfield, Connecticut was settled in 1634 and more than 150 homes predate the Civil War and some predate the Revolutionary War. A walk through the historic district of Old Wethersfield seems like it is in a world of its own, yet it is just minutes from busy I-91.

Did you ever notice a castle on an island in the Hudson River between Cold Spring and Beacon, NY? Well, I did, and it piqued my interest, and I wanted to know more.