Tucked into the lush jungle just outside Luang Prabang, Kuang Si Waterfall feels less like a real place and more like something imagined.

Robert Lincoln, the only child of Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln, retained the architecture firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge to built his summer home on 392 acres in Manchester, Vermont. Lincoln had served as Secretary of War and Minister to the Court of St. James, and made his fortune as a lawyer before becoming President of the Pullman Company. Robert Lincoln and his wife, Mary Harlan Lincoln, lived at Hildene in high style.

Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1991, Ayutthaya has been carefully preserved so that visitors can continue to experience its timeless beauty.

The Swedes built the fortress as a bastion against the ever-encroaching Russians, when Finland was still under Swedish rule (1748-1808).

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.

Naumkeag is the former Berkshire estate of New York City lawyer and U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, Joseph Hodges Choate, and his wife Caroline, located in Stockbridge, Massachusettes. The Choate’s, who were part of the newly-rich, traveled in well-to-do social circles. They decided to build a 44-room shingle-style “cottage” with brick and stone details, designed by the architect of the day, Stanford White.

Immediately upon entering the walled garden, you will be transported from Yonkers to lands far away. This is only the beginning of the journey through the Untermeyer Park and Garden off of North Broadway in Yonkers.

Whether you’re feeding them, walking alongside them, or simply observing their calm presence in the fields, the experience feels both grounding and memorable.

iMajor and Mrs. James H. Dooley transformed rough fields and pastures into a showplace many American millionaires were creating during the Gilded Age.

Motorbikes surge through the streets like rivers of silver and black, street vendors call out over the constant hum of traffic, and towering skyscrapers rise unexpectedly above faded French-colonial facades.

Nemours, the former 300-acre estate of Alfred I. du Pont, is named after the du Pont ancestral home in north central France. The 102-room French chateau-style mansion, designed by Carrere and Hastings, and built between 1909 and 1910, was a gift from Alfred to his second wife, Alicia.

Originally dug by villagers in Cu Chi District during resistance against French colonial forces in the late 1940s, the tunnel network was later expanded extensively during the 1960s and used throughout the Vietnam War.

At first, they seem like weathered stone columns. Then you look closer… and the stone is looking back at you.

There are places that impress you—and then there are places that completely humble you. Angkor Wat in Cambodia does both.

Hidden deep within the Angkor Archaeological Park, Ta Prohm feels less like a monument and more like a rediscovered secret.

Standing there, it’s impossible not to feel small — and completely awestruck. There’s a stillness at the summit that makes you aware of how ancient and immense this landscape is.

In “The Great Gatsby”, F. Scott Fitzgerald described this area as “a valley of ashes”. It would later be transformed into the 1,200-acre site where the world would converge in 1939, to witness highlights that included exhibitions by companies like General Electric, IBM, RCA, Borden, American Tobacco and Coca Cola.

Coe Hall is the 65-room centerpiece of the 409-acre Planting Fields Historic State Park located in Oyster Bay, New York. The estate was originally landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, featuring greenhouses, rolling lawns, formal gardens, woodland paths and outstanding plant collections.

Westbook Farms started when William Bayard Cutting purchased the George C. Lorillard estate on the Connetiquot River in the Long Island town of Great River. Cutting was a New York City lawyer and sugar beet refiner, who made his fortune in railroads and in the development of the Red Hook, Brooklyn waterfront.

This small historic Victorian-style town, nestled in the Lehigh Mountains, is definitely worth exploring. The town’s main commercial streets are Broadway and Race Street with charming old buildings, some maintained, some restored. The coal mining and railroad town was founded in 1818, and named Mauch Chunk (derived from the Indian words meaning “bear mountain”).