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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!

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

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.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

An abandoned Victorian-era mill in the middle of modern Manchester.

A stack of stones steeped in Irish folklore, much like the hero they're connected to, hide in plain sight.

Tour the oldest unrestored plantation house in America that is open to the public.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

A legendary boxing venue and ring featured in Rocky V.

Alexander Hamilton’s creation caused quite a bit of controversy.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.