An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The mounds at this site were reconstructed with the help of archaeologists and historians.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.