Somerset, Pennsylvania
Statue of Jackson the Elephant
In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.
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Somerset, Pennsylvania
In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.
Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania
A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.
Mars, Pennsylvania
Could it have picked a better place to land?
Gallitzin, Pennsylvania
A hidden piece of Altoona's railroad history in a long-forgotten abandoned town.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania
Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.
Yorklyn, Pennsylvania
An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.
Bedford, Pennsylvania
This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Sarasota, Florida
The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.
St. Augustine, Florida
The graves in Florida's oldest Black cemeteries are marked with shells, stones, and mementos of the deceased.