Places benjathom Wants to Go

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

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

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

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

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

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

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

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

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.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

In the little-known Pine Forest Range in northwestern Nevada, a natural lake of glacial origin.

An incredible mosaic-lined monument said to have held the remains of an ancient Roman empress.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.