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Chicago, Illinois

The Sullivan Center

Louis Sullivan’s dark, swirling cast-iron designs envelop a popular department store in this Chicago landmark.

Daniell and Freeland family cemetery sitting on one of the Windsor Mounds

Lorman, Mississippi

Windsor Mounds

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

La Hütte Royal is one of four whole-house art installations in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Troy Hill Art Houses

Discover these whole-house works of art in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood.

Pittsburgh’s Mattress Factory art museum is housed in a former Stearns & Foster factory.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Mattress Factory

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

The Grand Concourse Restaurant is located in a former train station dating to 1901.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Grand Concourse Restaurant 

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

The lighthouse affords dreamy sunset views.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie Land Lighthouse

Climb the first lighthouse commissioned on a Great Lake to a lookout with peaceful, panoramic views.

The state park boasts the only seashore in the state of Pennsylvania.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Presque Isle State Park

Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).

The hat house

Huntsville, Texas

Cowboy Hat and Boot Houses

A pair of whimsical homes in Texas shaped like oversized Western wear.

Fredosaurus Rex Friday XIII

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Fredosaurus Rex Friday XIII

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Hartwood Acres Pet Cemetery

A hidden pet cemetery honors the generations of canine companions from one of Pittsburgh's most famous estates.

Shine Bright Saginaw Mural

Saginaw, Michigan

Shine Bright Saginaw Mural

Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.

Visitors sometimes leave coins in tribute to Schlag.

Owosso, Michigan

Grave of Felix Schlag

Largely unknown designer of the Jefferson nickel, one of the most iconic coins in U.S. history.

Indian Boundary Park Zoo (Abandoned)

Chicago, Illinois

Indian Boundary Park Zoo (Abandoned)

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

Cornelius Low House

Piscataway, New Jersey

Cornelius Low House

One of the last-standing and most prominent structures from a long-lost colonial port community.

Hoopar Brothers Gravestone

Edison, New Jersey

Hoopar Brothers Gravestone

In a New Jersey cemetery, the final resting place of two brothers who fell victim to a deadly mushroom.

The gravesite among the asphalt.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Evans/Ellis Cemetery

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

Aaron Burr's Grave in the Princeton University's Presidents Plot

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton Cemetery

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

Centennial Rock with the carvings "E Suydam 1876 M Danbury Centennial Year." Followed by the mysterious cypher. Unfortunately, weathering and possible vandalism has made much of the carving illegible. Early images of the carving in a better state of preservation can be viewed here: https://weirdnj.com/stories/cryptic-carvings-along-lawrence-brook/

New Brunswick, New Jersey

Lawrence Brook Carvings

A mixture of strange symbols, ciphers, words and cryptograms carved in 1876 remain unsolved to this day.

Princeton Chapel Bulldog

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton Chapel Bulldog

The mysterious canine hides atop a drain pipe on the back of the building, some say as a sneaky shoutout to Yale.

Nassau Hall

Princeton, New Jersey

Nassau Hall

Nassau Hall has served as army barracks, a museum, and played a key role in the American Revolution.

A street sign on Haunted Lane in Bensalem.

Bensalem, Pennsylvania

Haunted Lane

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

Frankford Avenue Bridge

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Frankford Avenue Bridge

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

Grounds for Sculpture

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Grounds for Sculpture

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

National Museum of Funeral History

Houston, Texas

National Museum of Funeral History

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

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