The New York Botanical Garden is one of the premier botanical gardens in the United States, located in the Bronx in New York City. It spans some 250 acres of Bronx Park and is home to some of the world’s leading plant laboratories featuring 50 gardens and plant...
The Lilac Festival Rochester is the oldest festival of its kind in North America. Highland Park possesses a huge collection of lilacs, featuring more than a thousand bushes and hundreds of different varieties. Early May is the season that lilacs are blooming in...
Arguably the world’s greatest urban park, this was the project that launched Frederick Law Olmsted’s career. Not only is it the first public park built in America, but it is also one of the most frequently visited, with over 25 million guests per year. Set...
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is the oldest public arboretum in North America and one of the world’s leading centers for the study of plants. The layout of the Arnold Arboretum is ingeniously fitted to the topography, creating a picturesque...
Kykuit is a preeminent Hudson Valley landmark. For architecture, remarkable gardens, art, history, and spectacular scenery, a trip to Kykuit is simply amazing. John D. Rockefeller commissioned Olmsted Brothers for the design but was not happy with their work and began...
Honoring the lives of those who were lost is at the heart of our mission. Occupying eight of the 16 acres at the World Trade Center, the Memorial is a tribute to the past and a place of hope for the future. The 9/11 Memorial features two enormous waterfalls and...
With its gracious house, magnificent gardens, and panoramic views, Naumkeag is a quintessential country estate of the Gilded Age. This architectural masterpiece is, at its heart, a family home. Joseph Choate, a leading 19th-century attorney, hired the architectural...
In 1904, Saint André Bessette, C.S.C., began the construction of St. Joseph, a small chapel on the slopes of Mont Royal near Notre Dame College, in Montreal. Father Paul Bellot, an architect, completed the dome of Saint Joseph’s Oratory between 1937-39. The dome...
Dedicated at historic sites in the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the War of 1812 Bicentennial Peace Gardens celebrate the two hundred years of peace and longstanding friendship between two countries that share the world’s longest undefended...
For Immediate Release Contact: +1.917.575.6600 February 16, 2011 Nick Calderazzo Opens New Company: Twin Travel Concepts, LLC Kinderhook, NY –Tapping in to more than 30 years’ experience in tour and receptive services, Nick Calderazzo has opened Twin Travel Concepts....
Sample Itinerary Day 1 New York City through the Hudson Valley to Cooperstown Hudson Valley – Where landscape, art and history create magic. Storm King Art Center – a pristine 500-acre landscape with more than 100 carefully sited sculptures. 2-hour...
Sample Itinerary Day 1 NYC through Sullivan County Catskills to Corning and the Finger Lakes Sullivan County Catskills – Year-round fishing, hiking, watersports, art and pottery trails, and fantastic Fall Foliage Woodbury Commons – The world’s finest outlet...
