Places infracta Wants to Go

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Now in disrepair, this 19th century station was a stop on of the famed B&O Railroad.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

This massive airship factory is so large that it has its own indoor weather.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

A gregarious Ohio resident has been building his whimsical temple to peace for decades.

The ruins of the suspension bridge hang over Kingsbury Run as a ghost of racial prejudice.