Pittsburgh’s largest and most detailed model train display began as one WWI veteran’s hobby.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

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

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

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.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

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

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

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.