The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

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

The site of one of history's most indelible and horrific tragedies.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

Yo, Adrian!

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

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

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

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

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.