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With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

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!

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

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.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

The house where Good Will Hunting was written is a surreal fairytale abode.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

This quirky UFO-shaped curiosity is often mistaken for the airport’s control tower.

Though the original building has been demolished, these massive bronze doors were saved.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

A 1950s Googie burger stand is now a Los Angeles landmark.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

Though tiki culture has gone in and out of fashion, the Tonga Hut has always been flying the flag in Los Angeles.

This star-studded Old Hollywood restaurant is where fettuccine Alfredo made its United States debut.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.