Places Edited by Ian Hall

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

This statue of the "father of television" stands prominently in the United States Capitol.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

The home of possibly the least-loved U.S. president stands as a sort of unpopular Monticello.

These crumbling foundations are all that remain of the once-stately 1840s manor that gave the town of Bradenton its name.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Two dozen pinball games hidden away inside a most unlikely location.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

The ruins of one of the first railroads in the U.S. lie hidden within a neighborhood cul-de-sac.

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

These unusual rooms on wheels are holdovers from the 1960s.

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

Born a slave on the Arlington estate, Parks dug the first graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and was buried there, too.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

An ode to the friendship between four Pacific Rim countries.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

Local myth claims this is a Sears catalogue home with its windows installed upside-down.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.