Places Jen Seriously Wants to Go

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

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

Designed as a place for patients to take in the scenery, this tower has a dark history.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

This uninhabited island in Maine is home to various works of art left by visitors over the years.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.