• Luxuriate in one of the famed Saratoga Springs baths. The area features dozens of bathhouses supplied by the naturally carbonated mineral springs that visitors seek to ease tension and once believed could cure a host of ailments.

• Explore the main street and bask in the architecture and heritage of Glens Falls, designated "Hometown USA" by Look magazine in 1944 as a patriotic model of the homefront during World War II. Many of the buildings depicted in the series of 6 articles remain in use today, and the collection of 35 photos is now housed at the Crandall Public Library.

• Spend an afternoon at the Hyde Collection, a historic house and museum complex whose collection of art includes works by Botticelli, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Renoir, as well as 19th-century European and American pieces. The Hyde House itself is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places as of 1984.