Beside a busy highway, a colony of Great Blue Herons raises hundreds of offspring each year.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

This Frank Lloyd Wright summer house was designed along Lake Erie as a retreat for a client's wife.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

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

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

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

The only museum in the Western Pennsylvania region that focuses on Asian art and Meissen porcelain.

A collection of bite-sized buildings creates a magical mini village in the Pennsylvania mountains.

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

One of the last few period-correct, hand-operated canal locks in the country.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Catch a ride through the Pennsylvania countryside on this historic narrow-gauge railroad.

A 20-foot-tall quarter commemorates George Washington’s ties to Bedford County.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An unexpected canine grave atop a mountain.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

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