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

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

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.

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

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A 1940s nuclear reactor built to produce plutonium for the Manhattan Project.

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

A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

Tens of thousands of tiny birds swarm into one school chimney every fall.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.