Thomas Edison is best known for the incandescent lamp and phonograph, but Edison’s greatest invention was a new way to invent: the industrial research and development laboratory.

The Morse Museum houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of Louis C. Tiffany’s work, including jewelry, pottery, paintings, leaded-glass windows and lamps.

Eastern State was the world’s first true penitentiary. It was operational from 1829 to 1971 and is renowned for its innovative architecture and penal philosophy.

Hidden in plain site in the Glen Oaks section of Queens is one of the longest continually farmed sites in New York City.

Marjorie Merriweather Post was a pioneering business executive, engaged citizen, generous philanthropist, distinguished collector and amazing party hostess.

Lewes is a charming small town that is located where the Delaware Bay meets the Atlantic Ocean. When you stroll the streets of the historic district you will see unique shops, museums, and restaurants to please every palate.

The museum regularly hosts exhibitions that showcase various aspects of fashion, including thematic, contemporary and historical designs.

The mansion that houses the Nassau Country Museum of Art, in Roslyn Harbor, was originally built by Lloyd Stephens Bryce utilizing the Neo-Georgian designs of architect Ogden Codman.

The Las Vegas Burlesque Hall of Fame is the world’s only museum dedicated to preserving burlesque as an art form.

Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of John Shaffer Phipps who had the 44-room English manor house house commissioned as a wedding present to his wife, Margarita Grace Phipps. It was completed in 1906 by the English designer George A. Crawley on 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes.

Biltmore, the opulent 250-room French Renaissance chateau, nestled in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, was the vision of George Washington Vanderbilt, carried out by renowned architect Richard Morris Hunt. Construction began in 1889 and the opulent estate, with grounds designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, was opened on Christmas Eve in 1895 to family and friends.

The monastery is located in the Aflama district of Lisbon, which is the oldest district in the city. It its considered one of the most important monastic buildings in Portugal.

This is a unique and colorful collection of some of Las Vegas historic signs.

The Seashore Trolly Museum is a unique indoor / outdoor museum primarily showcasing the history and development electric railways.

The Roosevelt’s home was typical brownstone located on what was a quiet tree-lined street in the city’s fashionable residential district. Theodore Roosevelt was the second of four children born to socialite Martha Stewart Bulloch and businessman Theodore Roosevelt Sr.

One of the main attractions of the museum is the setting itself, which is the ruins of a convent.

The Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, Rhode Island is a great place to visit for the history buff as well as the art and automobile enthusiast.

The Cornish ruins are a part of the Hudson Highlands State Park Preserve, and offers a glimpse into the past, with the ruins of industrialist Edward Cornish’s 650-acre gilded age estate.

Caleb Smith Preserve contains the historic home of Caleb and his father Daniel Smith II. Caleb, the grandson of Richard “Bull” Smith, and was a member of the New York Assembly and a Suffolk County Judge.

The Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum is is housed in the former mansion of wealthly industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, just off of Fifth Avenue on the upper east side of Manhattan.