The Isabella Stewart Garner Museum, originally called Fenway Court when it opened in 1903. It was founded by Isabella Stewart Garner, whose will called for her art collection to be permanently exhibited ‘for the education and enjoyment of the public forever’. The building was constructed between 1896 and 1903.

I was told by the guide that this land was going to become a Walmart and public opposition won and this is Ferry Farm re-created. George Washington was 6 years old when the family moved here in 1738.

The Lightner Museum was founded by Chicago publisher and collector Otto C. Lightner in 1947. Lightner was best known as the publisher of Hobbies, The Magazine for Collectors.

Montpelier is the lifelong home of James Madison, the fourth President of the United States, father of the Constitution, architect of the Bill of Rights, Secretary of State, and slave owner.

George Washington purchased a three-room cottage for his mother, Mary Ball Washington in 1772. The house you see today was extensively expanded over the years.

The Ponce de Leon Hotel was an exclusive luxury hotel built by Standard Oil co-founder and railroad magnate Henry Flagler and competed in 1888. This was the first major project for the architecture firm of Carrere & Hastings.

Middleton Place is home to the oldest landscaped garden (laid out in 1741) in America and was home to successive generations of the Middleton family.

When you visit Mordecai Historic Park you will get a sense of what life was like during the period of Raleigh’s founding.

The park has a number of Long Island period structures to represent a typical pre-civil War on Long Island.

Lenoir Preserve is a 40-acre nature preserve adjacent to the Old Croton Aqueduct on the slopes overlooking the Hudson River. It is made up of three former Yonker estates.

Provincetown is famously known as the location where the pilgrims first landed back in 1620, but today is a vibrant, thriving and diverse playground. The historic fishing town sits on the edge of the continent, 60 miles out to sea on the tip of Cape Cod.

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s, South Beach was mostly coconut farmland, Miami Beach exploded as a beachfront community in the 1920’s. Many of the building styles included Art Deco, Nautical Moderne and Streamline Moderne.

The Sarah P Duke Gardens consist of approximately 55 beautifully landscaped and wooded acres including terraced gardens, fountains, gazebos, bridges at Duke University.

Florence is filled with art, statues, history and architecture that will leave you in awe with possibly a stiff neck.

If you are not familiar, Cinque Terre a string of five century-old seaside villages on the rugged Italian Riviera coast. The Cinque Terre is a national park and a UNESCO world heritage site.

Washington DC was formed in 1790 and is home to United States government buildings including the Capitol, White House, Supreme Court building

Oak Alley, the sugarcane plantation, got its name from the double row of 28 live oks and established in the 1850’s and was functioning until the 1920’s.

Whitehall is the Palm Beach mansion built by Henry Morrison Flagler, one of the founding members of Standard Oil and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist destination. The 75-room, 100,000 square feet home was enjoyed during winters by the Flaglers, and they entertained constantly for 11 years until his death in 1913.

William “Tangier” Smith owned a large tract of land, approximately 64,000, in Suffolk County. Through the years the estate would be divided many times as parts are divided almost children of the Smiths and sold off and or donated.

Ringwood Manor became the Gilded Age summer estate of partners Peter Cooper and Abram Hewitt and their families in 1853.