Photographer Tracy Zhang explores the Garden District and French Quarter of New Orleans, it's grand mansions and beautiful buildings.
Downtown Montreal used to be a wealthy residential neighborhood named the Golden Square Mile. Today, the former mansions have found new modern-day uses.
Spend a summer afternoon in the historic Suffolk County Vanderbilt Mansion built for William K. Vanderbilt II, an intrepid explorer and collector of over 17,000 marine species.
Architects in 17th century Paris had a lot of constraints to work with: swampy land, oddly shaped plots and some rather demanding patrons, including Louis XIV's first lover.
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum in Pelham Bay Park is an illustrious late-19h century hideaway in the far reaches of the Bronx.
New York’s wealthiest citizens built mausoleums in Woodlawn Cemetery with grandeur that matched the 5th Avenue mansions they spent their living years in.
A look at the changing streetscape of Fifth Avenue and 57th Street, once the site of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's mansion, the largest single family home in the city at the time.
The rise and fall of the Vanderbilt family still pervades American historical lore and the remnants of Cornelius Vanderbilt II's Fifth Avenue Mansion can still be found throughout Manhattan.
After 100 years, a museum in France re-opens to the public after being forcibly sealed by the owner's will.