The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

A local prank turned town icon.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

Yo, Adrian!

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

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.

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

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

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

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

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.