Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mütter Museum
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.
Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Kecksburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.
Castle Shannon, Pennsylvania
The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.
Canonsburg, Pennsylvania
Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.
Hamilton Township, New Jersey
A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Wheeling, West Virginia
The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.
Pasadena, California
Sports history, made in the Arroyo Seco.
Pasadena, California
A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.
Pasadena, California
Where the rich wintered in Pasadena.
Pasadena, California
The American Home, Re-imagined.
Newark, Ohio
An office built to look like a giant basket.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Morgantown, West Virginia
This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.