United States Military Academy

There's much to see at "The Point", a National Historic Landmark that is the oldest continuously-operated U.S military installation and the ''alma mater'' of many prominent U.S. Army officers from George Custer and Ulysses S. Grant to Dwight Eisenhower, George Patton, Douglas MacArthur and, more recently, Norman Schwarzkopf and David Petraeus. The academy maintains one of the world's largest military museums, with many exhibits and battle dioramas. On campus there are the magnificent stone Gothic buildings, spectacular views of the river and surrounding mountains of the Hudson Highlands, and the military paegantry of the cadets, the "Long Gray Line" who will follow in the footsteps of their distinguished predecessors.