Abraham Lincoln spent more than a year of his presidency living at this site about three miles from the White House. What was he doing there and what can you learn when you visit?

Just down the road from Jefferson’s Monticello, Ashlawn-Highland is the home of our fifth president James Monroe. You take a house tour and explore the grounds. There is also an amazing tree known as the Monroe Oak.

It’s the ranch known as the “Texas White House,” and the house on LBJ’s ranch is indeed white. But there is way more than just the house to see on this tour where you’ll learn a lot about our 36th president.

Andrew Johnson may be one of country’s most unpopular presidents, but you may have a new perspective after visiting his birthplace in Raleigh, North Carolina. The house has been moved to Mordecai Historic Park, home to several other historic buildings.

There’s lots to see at Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest, located in Southwestern Virginia. www.poplarforest.org

Monticello, the home designed and built by Thomas Jefferson, is one the most recognized homes in the United States and it is a very popular tourist destination. There were big lines when we visited in April 2009. Along with magnificent house, there are also some great gardens to see.

Montpelier is the home of our fourth President James Madison. On the tour, you’ll stand in the library where the “Father of the Constitution” drafted that very document. The house itself has some interesting history

The William Howard Taft National Historic Site sits on one of Cincinnati’s most prominent hilltops. Start in the Visitors Center to purchase tickets for the house tour. You really can’t miss it, it’s a big yellow house.

While most people associated our 16th president with Illinois or Kentucky, he actually spent much of his childhood in Indiana. You can learn about his life there at the Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial in southern Indiana.

Rapidan Camp (also known as Camp Hoover) was a treat for President Hoover during his administration. It’s now part of the National Park System

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton, Virginia also includes a tour of the home where Wilson was born.