Places BlueGranite1 Wants to Go

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

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.