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Linesville Spillway

Linesville, Pennsylvania

Linesville Spillway

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

Riverside Brewing Co. creatively infuses hints of maple from its family-run maple farm into its beer and food menu.

Cambridge Springs, Pennsylvania

Riverside Brewing Co. 

This brewery infuses its beers and food with maple from a generations-old family farm. 

The spelling of ‘diner,’ a Pennsylvania custom, is familiar to locals.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Lawrence Park Dinor

Fuel up on comfort food favorites at this local gem that’s also a national landmark.

The state park boasts the only seashore in the state of Pennsylvania.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Presque Isle State Park

Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).

The perfect spot if you like your brews with a lot of history and a little haunting.

Erie, Pennsylvania

The Brewerie at Union Station

Relax over handcrafted ale and gastro-pub grub inside an iconic (and possibly haunted) train station.

Inspiration Stump

Cassadaga, New York

Lily Dale Spiritualist Community

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

The 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

Canonsburg, Pennsylvania

Sarris Candies Factory

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

The entrance and disk announcing the Fountain of Youth

Wexford, Pennsylvania

Fountain of Youth

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

"The Angel of Death Victorious" also known as the "Haserot Angel" in Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland, 10/15/2021

Cleveland, Ohio

The Haserot Angel

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The James A. Garfield Memorial

Cleveland Heights, Ohio

James A. Garfield's Memorial and Tomb

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.

Alan Freed memorial at Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.

Cleveland, Ohio

Grave of Alan Freed

A jukebox headstone marks the grave of the Cleveland disc jockey credited with coining the term “rock 'n' roll."

Balto in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History

Cleveland, Ohio

Balto the Sled Dog

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

VW Beetle Spider.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Schaefer's Auto Art

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

A postcard from the inside of the aquarium, dating to 1907 or 1908.

Detroit, Michigan

Belle Isle Aquarium

The Beaux-Arts aquarium boasts a vast collection of saltwater and freshwater fish on an island in the Detroit River.

Giant Boxing Arm of Joe Louis

Detroit, Michigan

Giant Boxing Arm of Joe Louis

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

Extensive collection of incense

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Dr. Tumblety's Time-Inspired Specialty Shop

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

The Marland Hights District of Weirton, West Virginia.

Weirton, West Virginia

Weirton

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

The The Weeping Glass.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Weeping Glass

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

West Virginia State Penitentiary

Moundsville, West Virginia

West Virginia State Penitentiary

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Don Knotts Statue

Morgantown, West Virginia

Don Knotts Statue

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

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