Looking a lot like one of his paintings, this water-lily pond in Giverny, France, is one of the many legacies left by French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Monet began painting in Giverny, a village on the Seine some 45 miles (74 kilometers) west of Paris, in 1883.

Few people know that he also designed the gardens he immortalized on canvas, such as this pond and garden near his Giverny home.

(Photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Giverny," March 1989, National Geographic Traveler magazine)