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Library of Congress Card Catalog

Washington, D.C.

Library of Congress Card Catalog

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Bayernhof Museum

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Bayernhof Music Museum

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

Murals of Maxo Vanka

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Murals of Maxo Vanka

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

Hickory Run Boulder Field

Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania

Hickory Run Boulder Field

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Jayne Mansfield Grave

Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania

Jayne Mansfield Grave

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

Indian Caverns visitors center on the hillside.
Permanently Closed

Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

Indian Caverns

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

The reconstructed Drake Oil Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well

Titusville, Pennsylvania

Drake Well Museum

Where the oil industry began.

Oil Wagon

Pleasantville, Pennsylvania

Pithole City

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

Nebraska Bridge.

Tionesta, Pennsylvania

Nebraska Bridge

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Panorama from the overlook.

Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania

Kinzua Bridge

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The Apollo boilerplate.
Permanently Closed

Franklin, Pennsylvania

Dairy Queen Apollo Capsule

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

Gobbler's Knob

Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Gobbler's Knob

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

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.

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Mercer Museum and Fonthill Castle

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

Mars Flying Saucer

Mars, Pennsylvania

Mars Flying Saucer

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Figure of Tor Johnson, from Plan 9 From Outer Space

Monroeville, Pennsylvania

The Living Dead Museum

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Normaal Amsterdams Peil (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum)

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Normaal Amsterdams Peil (Amsterdam Ordnance Datum)

Europe's official "zero-level," the equator of elevation.

The The Weeping Glass.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Weeping Glass

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The Knoxville Incline above the coal road.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Keeling Coal Road

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

Magneto Mural.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Magneto Mural

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

Gene Kelly's plaque outside the William Pitt Union.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Gene Kelly's Pittsburgh Plaque

This plaque marks a place where one of Hollywood’s most famous dancers got his start.

Concrete City
Permanently Closed

Nanticoke, Pennsylvania

Concrete City

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

The abandoned building.

Pittston, Pennsylvania

Abandoned Knox Coal Distribution Center

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

The flag of the kingdom in front of a local museum.

Laadla, Estonia

Kingdom of Torgu

A clerical error gave rise to this imaginary micronation in the southwestern corner of Estonia.

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