Enjoy a behind the scenes tour of Macon's magnificent Hay House. Considered the most advanced antebellum building in America for its style, craftsmanship and technological innovations, Hay House has been featured on A&E's 'America's Castles.'

Built in the mid-1800s by William Butler Johnston, the keeper of the Confederate Treasury, the house is inspired by the mansions of Florence and Rome which Johnston and his wife visited during a three-year honeymoon in Europe. It took four years to build this 18,000-square-foot Italian Renaissance Revival mansion that is now a National Historic Landmark.

With its beautiful 18th-Century furnishings, Italian Carrera marble fireplaces, some of the country's finest examples of marbleized and trompe l'oeil finishes, a music room with a 30-foot clerestory ceiling, exquisite plaster work with 24-carat gold leafing and spectacular stained glass, Hay House is a true work of art that has to be seen to be believed!