The front of the Vanderbilt mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, called, for some reason unknown to me, "The Breakers". Here's the Wikipedia article about it (which I never added any of my pictures to).

I took this as we were standing in line waiting to get in, along with hordes of other tourists. They don't allow you to take pictures of the interior, but if I recall correctly it wasn't really that great anyway - Victorian, rather gaudy, filled with nauseating cherub statues everywhere (and a few on the outside of the house, too - you can see one near the right edge of this picture). Maybe that's actually why they don't allow pictures of the interior - since if people knew what it was like maybe they wouldn't pay as much just to get in.

It wasn't all bad, though - given that it was a quite massive mansion, there was lots of space, though I didn't think it was laid out at all well.

For some reason I overall found it rather loathsome and just nothing all that special. The proportions of various of the rooms particularly rubbed me the wrong way - like some rooms had really high ceilings (which ordinarily I'd like), but the rooms were far too narrow, etc. I mean, no wonder it's a museum instead of someone's house.