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A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."

Pittsburgh’s largest and most detailed model train display began as one WWI veteran’s hobby.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A quirky and charming restaurant founded by artists.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

This station on an abandoned railway line, named for “happiness,” is still a popular destination for lovers.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

Following the trail of an old metro line, this scenic path is haunted by a creepy spriggan statue.

Drink your espresso at a Victorian-era urinal in this underground-restroom-turned-coffee-bar.

Black cat statues guard this temple-like Egyptian revival factory.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.