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

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A collection of bite-sized buildings creates a magical mini village in the Pennsylvania mountains.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

A church now sits over the site of one of the worst urban disasters of early 19th-century America.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

The smallest and oldest covered bridge in Delaware.

The second oldest and longest of Delaware's three covered bridges.

This small museum houses rare airplanes from aviation's golden age.

The last remains of one of the oldest and largest oak trees in the United States calls this state park home.

This 17th-century place of worship still celebrates holidays in the traditional Swedish fashion.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

The solitary grave of a schooner captain killed by lightning while serving biscuits.

The taxidermy remains of the most popular pony in children's literature.

Both the building and blades of this reconstructed 19th-century windmill can turn in a breeze.

Stone markers on the campus of Gallaudet University commemorate a peculiar school tradition.