Zanesville, Ohio
Zanesville Y-Bridge
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
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Zanesville, Ohio
A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.
Cleveland, Ohio
The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Lake Lure, North Carolina
Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.
Sylva, North Carolina
This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.
Wilson, North Carolina
A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.
Corolla, North Carolina
One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.
Corolla, North Carolina
Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Bristol, Virginia
One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.
Locust Grove, Virginia
The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.
Luray, Virginia
An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.
Centreville, Virginia
Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.