These ancient treasures, together with historic photographs of the major excavations, aerial panoramas of splendid sites, old watercolors and lithographs, and 19th-century architectural renderings, are enough to leave a deep impression on anyone with a drop of philhellenic blood.
The best part of visiting Rhode Island's famous summer retreat, though, is ogling at its splendid sites alongside the one you love.
The lofty, contemporary restaurant itself, with its glass doors opening to roomy patios, is only a small part of the splendid site.
"Quaint" doesn't begin to describe the settings: pounding surf, rugged cliffs, splendid isolation, sites of historic rescues and damp derring-do.
So why shouldn't the orchestra just return to its former home, acoustically splendid, the site of its glory for decades?
As for the work's current standing, Deborah Burton, an assistant professor of music at Boston University and an organizer of a centennial symposium there on Monday as well as a splendid Web site on all things "Fanciulla" (fanciulla100.org), said: "It goes against a century's worth of cinematic myths about the Old West.
I Inca Trail (Peru) Splendid as the sites and views may be along the demanding, high-altitude path built by the Incas, it's arriving at the breath-taking, ancient city of Machu Picchu that is the icing on the cake.
But it is for its splendid mosaics that the site is most renowned today, none of them more splendid than the Mona Lisa of Galilee, the face of a beautiful woman fashioned from hundreds of tiny stones and glass squares, whose eyes follow you wherever you go, just like those of Leonardo da Vinci's better known masterpiece, now in the Louvre Museum in Paris.
A Unesco World Heritage site at the heart of a huge national park, the remains of this 2,500-year-old Roman city form one of Europe's greatest, yet least visited archaeological sites, with a splendid Greco-Roman temple.
The site also had splendid views over the Lizard Point and away on the furthest point was Goonhilly the satellite tracking station.
The Grove Park, built in 1913 on a site with a splendid view of the Blue Ridge Mountains, is modeled on the grand old railway hotels in the national parks of the West, like the Old Faithful Inn at Yellowstone and the Ahwahnee in Yosemite.
