Parks & gardens

Asheville

Biltmore Estate

America's largest home — George Vanderbilt's 250-room Gilded Age château, set on 8,000 acres with magnificent gardens, a winery, and mountain views.

Boston

Fenway Park Tour

A guided tour of the oldest ballpark in the major leagues — home of the Boston Red Sox since 1912, with the legendary Green Monster, and a century-plus of baseball history in every corner.

Charleston

Magnolia Plantation & Gardens

Chicago

Millennium Park & Cloud Gate

Chicago's signature public space — home to "The Bean" (Cloud Gate), the Crown Fountain, and Frank Gehry's Pritzker Pavilion.

Egmont Key

Fort De Soto Park

The five-island county park that keeps topping America's-best-beach lists — North Beach's lagoon and sugar sand, the 1898 fort and its big mortars, seven miles of paddling and bike trail, and the Egmont ferry's home dock.

Hawaii

Haleakala National Park (Maui)

Maui's 10,023-foot "House of the Sun" — sunrise above the clouds over a vast volcanic crater, otherworldly summit landscapes, and high-altitude hiking.

Lake Tahoe

Emerald Bay State Park & Vikingsholm

Tahoe's postcard — a glacier-carved bay of surreal green-blue water around the lake's only island, with a 1929 Scandinavian castle at its foot.

Los Angeles

The Getty Center

A spectacular hilltop art museum above Brentwood — European paintings (including Van Gogh's "Irises"), gardens, and Richard Meier's gleaming travertine architecture, reached by a tram with sweeping city views.