The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A local prank turned town icon.

A wall of chewing gum moonlights as collective art.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This statue is a commemoration of the only place where Freud spoke in the United States.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

Mural fragments and various sculptures honor the longtime artist.

A grave surprise in the downtown area of New England's second-largest city.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The oldest platform carousel built in the United States continues to delight children in Martha’s Vineyard.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Hundreds of personalized inscribed planks make up this historic boardwalk.